Item 4: Convalescent Homes for Soldiers NSW. Arrival of Sick and Wounded, by Helen Ashton No. 4 Bridge Street, 1 February 1917.

PXE 1692/vol. 52/Item 4

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1944

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera

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1 album (35 photographic prints, 19 items of textual material including clippings and ephemera) - 28 x 38 cm

1. (a) Photo of North-West Red Cross Home, "Ellesmere", Moree ; (b) Newspaper clipping on North-West Red Cross Home, Moree
2. Newspaper clipping of Western Red Cross Home, Bathurst
3. (a) Photo of Western Red Cross Home, "Hathrop", Bathurst ; (b) Photo of soldiers and staff in front of Western Red Cross Home, Bathurst
4. Photo of Rathmore presented to the Neutral Bay Red Cross by Miss Davey
5. (a) Photo of Boolaminbah, Armidale and New England Red Cross Home ; (b) Newspaper clipping of Boolaminbah, Armidale and New England Red Cross Home
6. (a) Newspaper clipping of Red Cross Sanatorium "Bodington", King's Tableland (Blue Mountains) ; (b) Newspaper clipping of St. Aldrem's, Haberfield ; (c) Newspaper clipping of Woodford Red Cross Home, Blue Mountains ; (d) Photo of
of Woodford Red Cross Home, Blue Mountains
7. (a) Photo of soldiers and staff in front of Rose Hall, Darlinghurst ; (b) Photo of the recreation room, Rose Hall, Darlinghurst ; (c) Newspaper clippings of Rose Hall, Darlinghurst
8. (a) Photo of Reinga at Woolwich ; (b) Newspaper clipping of Reinga at Woolwich
9. (a) Photo of Turramurra Red Cross Home ; (b) Newspaper clipping of Turramurra Red Cross Home
10. (a) Photo of Newcastle and Hunter River District Red Cross Home ; (b) Newspaper clipping of Newcastle and Hunter River District Red Cross Home
11. (a) Photo of wounded Queenslanders at Rose Hall waiting for train transport to Brisbane ; (b) Handwritten text  
12. (a) Newspaper clipping photo of Red Cross VADs meeting a transport troop ship with wounded men on board [Sydney?] ; (b) Newspaper clipping photo of the Fine Motor Transport Service, waiting for sick and wounded soldiers returning to
Sydney by ship, organized and managed by a Red Cross Member
13. (a) Newspaper clipping of Ardenbraught at Point Piper ; (b) Photo of staff and soldiers in front of Ardenbraught at Point Piper
14. (a) Photo of "The Octagon", Darling Point. This home was lent by Mr H.C. Holt for 12 months and closed December 1916 ; (b) Photo of soldiers and staff in the billiard room of "The Octagon", Darling Point
15. (a) Photo of Miss L. Wade, Mrs Ashton and Miss M. Sly in room 3 office ; (b) Photo of Miss Stephen, staff and an amputee soldier in room 4 office ; (c) Photo of Miss Chester and Miss Mort in room 8 office ; (d) Photo of soldiers in
basket industry
16. (a) Photo of the packing room ; (b) Photo of soldiers and staff in front of Rose Hall, Darlinghurst ; (c) Photo of soldiers and staff toy making
17. (a) Typescript of a VAD account of a visit to Ypres, the Menin Road, Hill 60, Paschendale, Armentiers, Bailleil and district, Boulogne, 19th March 1919 ; (b) Photocopies of a handwritten VAD account of a visit to Ypres, the Menin
Road, Hill 60, Paschendale, Armentiers, Bailleil and district, Boulogne, 19th March 1919 ; (c) Photocopy of a photo of a machine shop ; (d) Photo of a group of soldiers and VADS
18. Newspaper clipping More gaps to fill. Over 400 men return. [by train to Sydney from Melbourne], 1917
19. (a) Photo of a Swallow & Ariell Ltd.'s horse and dray with Red Cross crates of 4000 tins of wholemeal biscuits especially for prisoners of war, March 1917, presented to E. Holmes ; (b) 70 cents Australian stamp with Swallow & Ariel's
Teddy Bear biscuits and postmark 20 Nov 2014
20. Photo of the visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to the Australian Red Cross Stores at [illegible], 1920 / taken by Corporal A.G. Foster, 1st Australian Stationary Hospital
21. (a) Photo of the recreation room, Rose Hall ; (b) Photo of Woodford Convalescent Home
22. (a) Photo of Shed no. 1 Meals, Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Heliopolis ; (b) Camels transport Red Cross goods in the desert ; (c) Photo of North Western Home, Moree
23. (a) Disabled Australian soldiers working in a machine shop at Brighton ; (b) Queensland sick and wounded leaving Rose Hall by car for the train to Brisbane
24. Distribution of Australian Red Cross Society Christmas presents to invalids at Salisbury Plains camp
25. (a) Staff and wounded at Rose Hall ; (b) Large Dormitory at Burradoo Home / photo Stanley R. Beer, 91 Victoria Street, Potts Point

Photocopy and transcript of a letter written by VAD Helen Ashton, dated 19 March 1919. Detailing her visit to Ypres, the Merin Road, Hill 60, Passchendaele, Armentieres, Bailee and district.

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The contents list is adapted from an inventory compiled by Red Cross volunteers.

Albums, Red Cross Homes -- Cover title.

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