These objects are part of the Alfreda Attrill collection on display at HSC Archives/Museum.
Alfreda Attrill’s navy blue WWI Nursing Military Uniform with 2 Canadian Medical Corps Officer collar pins, 11 round brass Canadian Medical Corps buttons, 2 brass pins shaped to form “1 Canada”, 4 brass shoulder pins encircled by golden leaves with a hint of red and turquoise in raised centre, and Felt belt with brass buckle depicting British coat of armsAlfreda Attrill’s nursing veilAlfreda Attrill’s pins and military medals including: 2 medal ribbon bars; Great War veterans pin; 2 gold Canadian Medical Corps buttons; CEF War Service badge; British war medal; Victory medal; King George V Silver Jubilee medalAlfreda Attrill’s brown leather nurse’s chatelaine with silver case and 4 instrumentsSt. John’s Ambulance brass labels linked together, each bearing the number 166455 and a year ranging from 1918-1934. Fourteen of the labels have “H.N.” [Home Nursing] on them, 1 has an “S”[Sanitation], and the other has “H.H.” [Home Hygiene]St. John’s Ambulance brass links with a year on each ranging from 1917 to 1934
Boche Cemetery at Cambria, France[Nursing sisters and soliders], Le Touquet, FranceHotel du Rhine, Amiens, FranceLocality 54 Vimy Ridge War Memorial. This is now in Winnipeg in Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, Wolseley area. Photo taken in France.Ruins [Arras Cathedral], FranceCanadian cemetery at Vimy, FranceMontreuil, Allied Headquarters, FranceAJA [Alfreda Jenness Attrill] tending to a patient at Le Touquet, FranceRoad in Vimy, FranceArras, [Arras Cathedral, France][Left to right: unidentified nursing sister, soldier and nursing sister Alfreda Attrill], Le Touquet, France, 1916Ruins of Arras, FranceMontreuil, France“The surroundings in which the French Armies fought in Alsace. Soldiers at a Camp Fire.” [French War Office Official Photograph. Authorised for Publication. Issued by Newspaper Illustrations LTD.]Ruins [Arras Cathedral], FranceDugouts in a shell hole at Vimy, FranceView of Albert. [Probably Albertville, France]Sign pointing to “Petit Vimy,” FranceSoldier and plane, FranceCanadian Cemetery at Etaples, FranceRuins [Arras Cathedral], France
No. 5 Canadian General Hospital (Salonika)
These photographs were taken while Alfreda Attrill was stationed at No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Salonika.
Enroute to Macedonia in 1916 [Alfreda Attrill standing second from right.]AJA [Alfreda Jenness Attrill standing second from right] and others. Enroute to Macedonia, 1916Salonika Harbour, Thessaloniki, Macedonia[Unidentified Nursing Sisters in Macedonia.][Alfreda Attrill standing outside an Officer’s] Hut, Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaAfternoon tea outside of Officer’s Hut at #5 CGH [Canadian General Hospital], Macedonia, 1917Patients in Sister Burpee’s Hut, #5 [Canadian] Gen. [General Hospital], Macedonia, 1917Officers Hut #5 Canadian General Hospital, Salonika 1917. [Sister Hudson standing. Orderly Varley of Dauphin in the distance?], MacedoniaSalonika Officer’s Huts. Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaBarracks/Hospital. Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaSisters sitting room [Mess] #5 C.G.H. [Canadian General Hospital] Salonika 1917. Salonika/Thessaloniki, Macedonia[Costume] Party garb, #5 CGH, [Canadian General Hospital] Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaCanadian [Nursing] Sister reinforcements to #4 and #5 Can. [Canadian] General Hospitals. [Alfreda Attrill seated on the left.] Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaSisters on [transport ship] Aragon returning from Salonika/Thessaloniki, MacedoniaGerman Plane 1 [White Tower of Thessaloniki, Macedonia]Boys of this unit at drill [Macedonia]When an incendiary bomb ships in Salonika Harbour. Thessaloniki, MacedoniaHarvesting in Salonika. Thessaloniki, MacedoniaNatives of MacedoniaLooking toward Salonika over French Aerodomes from #5 Canadian General Hospital, Salonika/Thessaloniki, Macedonia
Alfreda Attrill’s visit to Egypt
These photographs were taken by Alfreda Attrill while visiting Egypt on special leave in May 1916.
Our party in Cairo, May 1916. [Nursing sisters, including Alfreda Attrill] On special leave granted by Miss Drew.Three nursing sisters, including [Alfreda Attrill], EgyptSphinx statue in EgyptTwo men riding camels past a pyramid, EgyptMosques at Citadel, CairoOn the Nile[Unidentified Nursing Sister taking a picture, Egypt]Sultan Hussain’s [Hussein Kamel] Mosque, CairoDeteriorating Sphinx, EgyptPotteries at Old Cairo, Egypt
Malta
These photographs were taken in the spring of 1917 while Alfreda Attrill was in Malta recuperating from illness.
Group of unidentified men in front of Patient’s Mess [Malta]Dragonara, MaltaUnidentified soldiers on veranda [Malta]Married Quarters, Inner Courts, St. George’s, MaltaSt. George’s Bay from the Hospital, MaltaSt. George’s Hospital, MaltaGroup of Goats [Malta]Governors Palace, San Antonio, MaltaFishing at St. George’s Bay, MaltaMalta Railway Station, ValettaMarried Quarters, St. George’s, Pembrooke, MaltaStatuary Dragonara. [Statuary Neptune, Inner Court, Dragonara], MaltaFountain, San Antonio Garden [San Anton Gardens], MaltaSt. George’s Bay, MaltaSt. George’s Administration and Married Quarters, MaltaSt. Joseph’s, Misida, MaltaRosa Villa, MaltaDghajsa [Maltese water taxi] Slovenia side of Bay, MaltaPorta Reale, MaltaSt. Paul’s Valletta [Marsamuscetto], [Marsamxett Harbour, Malta][Sliema] harbour, MaltaMaltese Bay, MaltaSt. Julian’s Bay, Malta
England
AJA [Alfreda Jenness Attrill] at Bishop’s Dale, Buxton, England, 1919[Alfreda Attrill] Among the Poppies, Bishop’s Dale, BuxtonA.D. Allan, RRC [Royal Red Cross?] in gown, Buxton, England, March 18, [1918]The Matrons and Sisters with the Duke of Connaught. June 1918, BuxtonThree Nursing Sisters, including Alfreda Jean Attrill [right] in Buxton, EnglandThe party at Peacock [Inn], EnglandFuneral Procession. Padre Major Hooper’s Gun Carriage, Pall Bearers, [Nursing] Sisters, Officers and other ranks, EnglandSix Nursing Sisters – Collius, Eastwood, [Ethel] Bayliss, Forrester, Bishop, Johnson, Dec 25, 1918, Buxton Palace, EnglandInspection by Duke of Connaught before C.D.D. 1918, EnglandDuck pond in the gardens, Buxton, Spring 1918 EnglandGloucester, EnglandA group of [Nursing] Sisters at Bishop’s Dale, Buxton, 1918, EnglandThe Terrace, Buxton, England[Nursing sisters] Edith and [Cluill] in Church Yard, Bakewell, England[Alfreda Attrill] Taken at Buxton February 1918, EnglandMrs. McLeod, Miss Fogarty [England?]Bishop Hooper’s Memorial, Gloucester, EnglandCivil Hospital, Buxton, EnglandHorse race. [Nursing] sisters and officers, July 1, 1918, EnglandOfficer patients and [nursing] sisters at a [?] in the country near Buxton 1918, EnglandAshwood Dale Road, Buxton in the Distance, EnglandThe old mill Ashwood Dale, EnglandMassage [Nursing] Sisters, Granville Special Hospital. Buxton, England [1918]Bishopsdale, Buxton, where billeted 1918, EnglandSisters Hudson, Muirat, Attrill on step #1, Rochester Terrace, Buxton Mar. 1918, England[Visiting] Solomon’s Temple, Buxton, March 1918, EnglandOfficer patients and their [nursing] sisters including Miss Owen, masseuse. Buxton, June 1918. EnglandBull-ith-Thorn Hotel, near Buxton – “Capt. C. Patterson’s party of 16 (class of August 1918). Nov. 16th., England[Unidentified building with three nursing sisters walking by, England]Grosvenor Hotel, our billet Buxton, England, 1918Near the Sacred Wells near Buxton, EnglandPond with fountain near Thames embankment, EnglandBuilding near Thames embankment. EnglandBuilding near Thames embankment. EnglandBuilding near Thames embankment, EnglandThames embankment, EnglandGarden near Thames embankment, EnglandKensington Park, London, [England][Unidentified building with 3 women standing in front. England]Peveril Castle, Castleton, Derbyshire, EnglandOn way to Marlborough House for Tea [after Investiture at Buckingham Palace, 1918][Unidentified building, England.]Ashwood Dale Road, England[Left to right:] Mrs. King Brown, Miss Hudson, Miss Merion, A.J. [Alfreda Jenness] Attrill. Buxton, May 1918, England.AJA [Alfreda Attrill, far right] and 4 others in Buxton, EnglandGreenwood, High Street, Buxton, EnglandCaptain Patterson in charge of Medical, England[Unidentified group at] Solomon Tower, Buxton. [Tower] built by a farmer in hard times after Napoleonic wars. Over the site of an ancient burial mound. EnglandCanadian and American officers at Dominion Day sports, 1918. Buxton, England[Unidentified woman at Goyt’s Bridge, England][Unidentified woman at Goyt’s bridge, England]Goyt’s village, EnglandGoyt’s village, England[Goyt] valley, EnglandTintern Abbey, England[Tintern Abbey, England]