Typescript memoir on her wartime service on the Serbian front.

BENNETT, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd.

Edité par 13 August 1916 - 25 May 1917

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One of Dr Agnes Bennett's working transcriptions of the informative and lively journals she kept while commanding the 7th Medical Unit, Scottish Women's Hospitals during the Salonika Campaign. Several hundred women from Australia and New Zealand served at the Serbian front, and Bennett was one of many decorated by the Serbian government after the war. Among the earliest science graduates of the University of Sydney, Bennett built a successful medical practice in Wellington, New Zealand, but left it to contribute to the war effort. In 1915, she became the first female commissioned officer in the British Army, serving as a captain in military hospitals in Cairo and, later in the war, on troopships. In the postwar period, she earned a reputation in New Zealand as an outstanding medical practitioner, and she received the OBE in 1948 for her services to the field. This transcription was likely produced a few years after the war. Most of the folders are labelled with the address of her brother, Francis Dillon Bennett, who resided in London at 36 Morpeth Mansions until his death in 1928. The biography of Agnes Bennett by Cecil and Celia Manson (a copy of which is included here) describes how she spent a period in London in 1925 as part of a medical fact-finding tour and to attend a conference on obstetrics. Bennett's papers, held at the National Library of New Zealand, contain another version of this typescript (reference: MS-Papers-1346-074), which covers the same period and is bound and presented similarly to ours. The two appear to be contemporaneous and exhibit some minor differences in content. Together, 184 sheets (most c. 270 x 205 mm), each typed one side only, divided into 8 vols, each bound with coloured string into contemporary buff or dark brown wrappers, front covers inscribed by Bennett in ink or pencil. Together with 3 loose typescript sheets, each typed one side only, manuscript postcard, and reading copy of Cecil & Celia Manson's biographical portrait, Doctor Agnes Bennett (London: Michael Joseph, 1960). Wear to covers, sheets of second volume now loose in covers and with loss to final four lines of p. 3, some other sheets loose, a very good collection.

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• Titre: Typescript memoir on her wartime service on the Serbian front.
• Éditeur: 13 August 1916 - 25 May 1917