J. Anne Cloudsley-Thompson

	General experience.
	This page: includes inventory and audio clip.

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Nurses in the Armoury.

Inventory of the Donation

• Manuscript and typescript recollections
• Tape-recorded interview
• Transcript of tape-recorded interview
• Red Cross buttons and badges
• 18 photographs

An ENSA concert party in the Old Palace, Hatfield House. A FANY, Betsy, on the left.

ENSA concert party.

Patients play cards and read in one of the impressive wards.

Patients play bowls outside the courtyard gates.

A British Red Cross Award in recognition of Anne Cloudsley-Thompson's Service, with buttons from her uniform.

J. Anne Cloudsley-Thompson Audio Clip:
Setting up at Hatfield Military Hospital.

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Transcript of Audio Clip

Well, the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy were unsuccessful in their protracted negotiations with the War Office and the RAMC to incorporate a physiotherapy unit and everything was at sixes and sevens but as a result of various negotiations the British Red Cross, in the winter of 1939 asked me whether I would come to Hatfield House to initiate a physiotherapy department as a civilian which, which status physiotherapists retained until the end of the war. . . and . . . So this was rather a nice idea as I had my apparatus and the department was allocated a beautiful room on the West Wing of Hatfield Military Hospital with French windows leading on to the courtyard and washing facilities were hidden behind a massive mahogany door and the French windows opened on to the south-facing courtyard and I offered to bring my electrical equipment from my private practice with me and my green Wilton carpet - a present from my grandmother, from my former practice you see. A plinth and a desk etc. of course, were supplied by the War Office and the, the local ladies who arranged flowers for the main hall and the public areas of the hospital, heard I had been appointed and I was offered accommodation at an extremely comfortable house in Fore Street which was very nice, a stone throw from the west gates of Hatfield House where Mr and Mrs Bennett resided.

	General experience.
	This page:includes inventory and audio clip.