Miss Beauchamp's War in Salonika
Passport;
Hand-written account of the Salonika fire (23 sides);
copy of the 'Balkan News';
Letters from a divan;
newspaper obituaries, citations and photographs.
Miss Agneta Beauchamp was the Treasurer of Somerville College, Oxford, during the 1930s and she was a very close friend of my mother (an undergraduate at the college from 1941-43), to whom she bequeathed her most important papers.
During the First World War, Miss Beauchamp (or 'Beechie' as she was known to us) served in Greece and as a result of her distinguished war work she was awarded the Croix de Guerre, amongst other honours. She was a witness to the Great Fire of Salonika in August 1917 and wrote a first-hand account, as well as keeping a newspaper report from the Balkan News, the first edition published after the event. Her passport is also a fascinating record of her extensive travels during the war.
Medical
Photograph
Photographs of Miss Beauchamp and of Salonika before and after the fire
Photographs of Salonika labelled 'Fire photographs, see explanation on back', also a photograph of Agneta Beauchamp taken in 1915
Salonika
Agneta Beauchamp
Home Front
Miss Beauchamp's passport
London
Agneta Beauchamp's passport with stamps showing her travels across Europe from 1915-1918
Official document
Women
Twenty page hand-written account of the Fire of Salonika written by Agneta Beauchamp, who was with the Red Cross in Salonika and witnessed the fire.
Memoir
Miss Beauchamp's Account of the Salonika Fire
Multiple
Collected papers of Miss Beauchamp
Letters ('Letters from a Divan') written by Miss Beauchamp, Balkans News account of the Salonika Fire and newspaper obituaries of Agneta Beauchamp
CREATOR
Sarah Wedderburn
DATE
1917
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
100
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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