Next of Kin Project: The Mellor Family
Three autograph books in which Florence collected drawings, watercolours, verses, jokes and messages from the wounded soldiers in her care; A copy of The Hydra, the hospital magazine at Craiglockhart; Memorial plaque and box sent to Hayden Mellor's next of kin by the British Government.
Florence Mellor was a young woman living in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She joined a Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross to serve as a volunteer nurse. She cared for wounded servicemen firstly at Edenfield Auxiliary Hospital, Cupar and then at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh where officers were treated for 'shell-shock'. Her brother Hayden was serving as a soldier in France with 8th/10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. In April 1918, at the height of the German offensive on the Western Front, Florence's family received news of Hayden's death. Florence kept a collection of objects as a reminder of her own war service and of the loss of her brother.
CREATOR
National Museums Scotland
DATE
1915 - 1919
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
5
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918