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Scrapbook relating to the services of Dame Florence Simpson, 1916-1920
scrapbook, scrapbook
Accession Number

NAM.1998-01-78-24

Description

One of three large scrapbooks. From the papers of Dame Florence Leach (Dame Simpson). Book 2: Cuttings from the Tatler, Alnwick and County Gazette, Grantham Journal, Illustrated London News, Daily Graphic, Express and Echo Exeter, Ladies Pictorial, the Bystander, the Gentlewoman, Western Mail, Church Family Newspaper, London Mail, the Natal Mercury, South Africa, Newcastle Journal,. Women drivers, royal visit, health and economy, titles for women, slander, WAAC’s, adverts to join WAAC. Article titles: Waiters or WAACS?/ O.C. WAACS/ TWO WAAC’s KILLED/ QMAAC GIRLS AT SALISBURY/ MERRY WAACS/ ROSES FOR THE WOUNDED WAACS/ ROYAL VISIT TO WAAC HOSTEL/ WOUNDED WAACS HEROISM/ BOMBED HOSPITALS/ THE QUEEN AND WOUNDED WAACS/ WAACS KILLED BY BOMBS/ THE REAL WAACS/ THE WOMEN”S ARMY/ THE WAAC AND HER CHEVRONS/ THE KING AT ALDERSHOT/ ROYAL VISIT TO ALDERSHOT/ 15,000 WAAC CLERKS NEEDED/ WAR HONOURS/ WAAC’S NEW ARMLET/ A WAAC DESERTER/ WILL WOMEN WAIT FOR CONSCRIPTION?/ THE WAAC NUT/ QUEENS PORTRAIT FOR WAAC/ QUEEN MARY”S AAC PATROL/ OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT/ SOME LEADERS OF THE WOMEN’S LEGION/ AN ALL MILITARY WEDDING/ FREE TRAINING FOR SHORTHAND TYPISTS/ WOMENS WAR WORK IN KENT/ THE RUMOUR SPREADERS/ SLANDERING THE WAAAC’S/ WAAC’S WOE FULL STORY/ PASSING THE DOCTORS/ WAAC HANDOVER/ CHIEF OF THE WAACS/ A MARCH PAST THEIR COLONEL-IN-CHIEF/ THE QUEEN AND THE WAACS/ THE VINDICATION OF THE WAACS/ WAACS RIGHT HAND SALUTE/ MUNITION MAKERS AT St PAULS/ WAAC MARCH TO ST PAULS/ EDDIES OF WAR/ HOW WAACS KEEP FIT IN WAR TIME/ WAACS IN PLAYTIME/ DOING GREAT WORK - MRS BURLEIGH LEACH/ THE BROWN GRAVES/ WITH THE WAACS LEADERS AND TYPES OF THE NEW FORCE/ VALPARAISO/ WITH THE WAACS IN FRANCE/ A VISIT TO THE WAAC IN FRANCE Lady Baden Powell/ SLANDER ON WAACS TRIUMPHANTLY DISPROVED/ WAACS ON WAR SERVICE/ WAR WORKERS MILITARY FUNERAL/ THE WOMEN OF THE NEW ARMY/ THE UNIFORM FOR THEIR COMRADES/ CULTIVATING WAR POTATOES IN FRANCE/ WAACS FROM FRANCE IN HOSPITAL/ WOMENS GALLANTRY IN THE FIELD/ WAAC HEROINES/ THE WAACS IN THE RETREAT/ NO CASUALATY IN THE WAAC/ WITH THE WAACS IN FRANCE/ WAACS IN BATTLE/ WOMEN’S PART IN BATTLE/ LAST WOMAN TO LEAVE THE WARILDA/ CHIEF CONTROLLER DROWNED IN HOSPITAL SHIP/

Campaigns

World War One (1914-1918)

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