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CONTENT WARNING	Some may find some of the images in this book offensive.
Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8529/1/3
Title	Scrapbook "War Book 1"
Date	1914-1915
Description	Contains newspaper cuttings, postcards, printed propaganda cartoons, drawings, poems, comments etc by the wounded men; signatures of staff and patients, and photographs. Many of the photographs depict named Belgium and British soldiers being treated at the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, and hospital staff showing the wards and grounds of the hospital, and trips out of the hospital. Also includes handwritten accounts in French and Flemisg of the Belgians experiences during the 1914 German advance. Some of the photographs of the matron have been torn out apparently by Nancy Garnett.
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Garnett and Spafford families of Buxton
Access Category	OPEN
Format	Document
Format	Photographic
Language	English
	French
	Flemish
Term	Theatre
	Military personnel
	Military hospitals
	Military nursing
	First World War (1914-1918)
	Nursing

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