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Group photograph of the MacDougald family | and nursing photograph sent home by Louisa Greany

Photograph of field hospital and medical staff, and photograph of three soldier brothers with their mother and the son of one.
My great, great grandmother was photographed with he grandchilderen who were in the British Army. I have the photograph of the Field Hospital because Louisa Greany was my great aunt. She trained as a nurse in Sir Patrick Duns Hospital and nursed in France and Egypt in the first world War. She died of flu in the 1919 epedemic. She sent this postcard home, with the names of her colleagues.

Photo of a Field Hospital and medical staff. Top row: M.le baron de Brogueville, Louisa Geeamy, M.Schoull (Legion of Honour on his chest, Head of Medicine. Mme la Contessa de Dampiere. The clerk. Second row, Mme la Barronne de Brogueville de Jessainh, Dr Weillen, Chief of medicine, Madam de Vellarasque, The Gestionneaire. Louisa Greamy was my great aunt. She trained as a nurse in Sir Patrick Duns Hospital and nursed in France and Egypt in the first world War. She died of flu in the 1919 epedemic. She sent this postcard home, with the name s of her colleagues.
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Photo of a Field Hospital and medical staff; a postcard of her colleagues sent home by Louisa Greamy
From the left the soldiers are Hugh Percy Macdougald (Highland Light Infantry), Robert Hector Macdougald (Yorkshire Regiment), Llewellyn George Duncan Macdougaid (Inniskillings) The latter was killed 0n 17th August 1917 at Passendaele and is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery. The child in the photo is my father, Hugh Macdougald 1914 to 1987.
The Macdougald brothers with their mother

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CONTRIBUTOR

Jean Fahy

DATE

1917 - 1917-08-17

LANGUAGE

eng

ITEMS

3

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Europeana 1914-1918

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UGC

Contributor

europeana19141918:agent/55f65bbf0fa770cbc49707ddce1d8301

Date

1917-08-17
1917

Type

Story

Language

eng
English

Country

Europe

DataProvider

Europeana 1914-1918

Provider

Europeana 1914-1918

Year

1917

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2020601_Ag_ErsterWeltkrieg_EU

Begin

1917

End

1917-08-17

Language

mul

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Jean Fahy | europeana19141918:agent/55f65bbf0fa770cbc49707ddce1d8301
LLewellyn Geogrge Duncan Macdougald | europeana19141918:agent/a2e90d3699c0addc072156f63bbf1b52

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2019-09-11T08:38:20.548Z
2020-02-25T08:41:52.324Z
2012-03-22 15:46:18 UTC
2012-03-22 15:47:07 UTC
2012-10-21 14:38:23 UTC
1917-07-15
2012-10-21 14:38:27 UTC

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DU18

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/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_3432

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