Cornwall Hall || || Official document || Home Front || Income & expenditure records || || Dinner menu, Cornwall Hall || Home Front || Cornwall Hall hospital || || Photograph || Home Front || Nurse Anson || || Multiple || Home Front || page from the New Cavendish Club's scrapbook (relating to Cornwall Hall) || || Letter regarding Queen Alexandra || Letter || Women || Home Front || || Photograph || VAD nurses || || A patient convalescing || Medical || Home Front || Photograph || || Publication || Newspaper article: Lloyd George || || A Hymn for Wartime || Other || || Photograph || Medical || Home Front || Wards 1 & 2 || || Home Front || Christmas 1916 || Photograph || Medical || || page from the New Cavendish Club's scrapbook (relating to Cornwall Hall) || Photograph || || Home Front || Photograph || Easter 1917 || || 51.27241000000001,0.19089800000006107 || the family group || Photograph || || programe, Cornwall Hall || Memorabilia || || Medical || Newspaper article; men aged 16 and 60, both wounded || Publication || Home Front || || Photograph || Home Front || Entertainment || || Poem || Women || Home Front || Poem: 10 little VAD;s || || Letter regarding the Commandant || Medical || Letter || Home Front || || Nurse Hearson and Sister Crump || Photograph || || Book || VAD ABC book (poems) || || Poem || 'A' is for the artist who stuck on night duty, drew this by candlelight, wrecking her beauty || || 'C' is for Canada, valant and true, whose sons make the Huns look decidedly blu || Poem || || 'G' are the grouses one has to suppress, at being cut off from more picturesque dress || Poem || || Poem || 'Quatermaster', (I'm thankful, aren't you, such a person exists because quagga won't do) ' || || W - The Woodbines they smoke by the score, like Oliver Twist we are asking for more || Home Front || Medical || Poem || || Poem || Home Front || Medical || 'Z' is the Zeal that inspires ev'ry one, to make their own hospital second to none || || Other || Syringe, from the WWI archive at the New Cavendish Club || Medical || || Hypodermic tablets, from the WWI archive at the New Cavendish Club || Medical || Other || || Other || Medical || Optical medical equipment from Cornwall Hall || || Photograph || Armistice Day...

A photograph of my uncle Frank Hanna, seated second from left, in the ship's company of Torpedo Boat Number One (TB1), a small craft that patrolled the East Coast of Britain from Immingham at the outbreak of WW1, before moving to Newhaven to patrol the English Channel. My uncle was in the first class of 100 men from the lower decks who were promoted to officers in a scheme initiated by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. A contemporary journalist wrote that my uncle was the first officer from the lower decks to be given a command.

Fitzmaurice Family