Catterick Camp Military Hospital: a VAD's autograph book

Item

Title

Catterick Camp Military Hospital: a VAD's autograph book

Who?

Batchie (Bessie) Griffiths and fellow VADs, patients and staff at Catterick Camp Military Hospital

Item(s)

Autograph book: cover and inside pages. Several of the pages are blank and these have not been included.

Story

Batchie (Bessie) Griffiths from Llandovery served as a VAD General Services clerk at Catterick Camp Military Hospital from February 1918 to February 1919. She left two autograph books signed by fellow VADs, patients and staff at the camp. Some of these can be identified (in this autograph book, VADs Ethel Maud Burdon and Dorothy Whettam, Grace Darling Doran who may or may not have been a VAD) but others only signed with their initials.

When?

1918-1919

Where?

Catterick Camp Military Hospital

Contributor

Alathea Anderssohn

Item sets

This item was submitted on May 18, 2019