Le Gallais family - Papers

Letter to 'my dear Josie' [Charlotte Le Gallais] from Ada Hawken, dated 19 August 1915, describing working as a nurse in the General Hospital in Alexandria [Egypt] during World War 1. (4 leaves)

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"My poor feet – all the floors here are marble so you can imagine they are hard. We do 12 hrs. [per] night."

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"We are living in a nurses home, a huge place, New Khedivial Hotel but cannot tell you what street it is in. These French names get me tangled up. This hospital used to be kept by German Sisters but of course is wholly British now."