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Hunt, Rosa Louise


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/40

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Hunt, Rosa Louise

Date(s): 1915-1916

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Hunt | Rosa Louise | fl 1915

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

It has not been possible to discover any background details about the writer of this diary.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

This volume was purchased by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1971, and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Community health nursing | Health services
First aid | Emergency treatment | Medical treatment | Therapy | Medical sciences
Hospitals, military | Hospitals | Health services
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Military medicine | Medical sciences
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Medical institutions

Personal names
Hunt | Rosa Louise | fl 1915

Corporate names
Red Cross | Voluntary Aid Detachment

Places
Malta | Western Europe | Europe