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Christmas in Wartime: a formal dinner in cap and apron

December 27, 2014 Circulating Now

December 27, 1914: “Yesterday—Boxing Day—there was a Christmas dinner in the evening for the whole nursing staff in the marble hall—seventy-one of us.”

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American Women's War Relief Hospital, Oldway, Paignton, a large columned building with a large paved courtyard.

Christmas in Wartime: You should have heard the shouts

December 25, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with

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Christmas in Wartime: gauze stockings for 200 men

December 23, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with

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Mary Dexter in a nurses uniform posing in a columned portico.

Christmas in Wartime: Mary Dexter and the Great War

December 22, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer

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