Your daughter, Fanny : the war letters of Frances Cluett, VAD / edited by Bill Romkey and Bert Riggs.
Your daughter, Fanny : the war letters of Frances Cluett, VAD / edited by Bill Romkey and Bert Riggs.
Alternate Title
:
War letters of Frances Cluett, VAD
By
:
Cluett, Frances, 1883-1969.
Publication Date
:
2006
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L. : Flanker Press,
Physical Description
:
172 p. : ill.
Subject Term
:
Voluntary aid detachments -- Correspondence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
Additional Contributors
:
Rompkey, William, 1936-
Riggs, Bertram G. 1954-
Summary
:
Frances Cluett was born in Belleoram, Newfoundland, in 1883. At the age of thirty-three, she left her Fortune Bay home to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), an organization committed to assisting military personnel during World War I. She trained in London, England, for work in a military hospital and in 1917 was stationed at the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France. During her four years of service overseas, Nurse Cluett wrote many letters to home. Contained here are the war letters she sent to her mother in Newfoundland, telegrams describing the atrocities of war, the valiant deeds of comrades in arms, and the despair of young men dying on foreign shores.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781894463928
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