Item 686 - Photographs of the First Eastern General Hospital at Trinity College

27 photographic prints

Gift of Myfanwy Griffiths on behalf of her mother Ethel Mary Griffiths, Nov. 1946. Ethel Mary Griffiths was the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Griffiths, the Commanding Officer of the First Eastern General Hospital.

Photographs of the temporary hospital erected in the Nevile's Court cloisters and the North and South Paddocks at the beginning of World War I, with images of the cloisters prepared for use as a hospital before soldiers appeared, as well as images with soldiers, doctors, and nurses in the cloisters, and in tents on the North and South Paddocks, with some images of soldiers in New Court. The photographs are primarily candid snapshots with a few posed images, but the photographer is not known.

The photographs were removed from an album and the images numbered in the sequence in which they appeared in the album. The album was uncaptioned. Accompanied by the letter of donation dated November 1946.

The album was previously catalogued in the printed books catalogue as G.13.112. The album was digitised before the photographs were removed.