Terry Carter Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 I have an album with a few postcards of Dunkirk and a few small photos of nurses outside huts and also a couple of concert programmes included. The only clue I have is one of the concert programmes is for the Friends Ambulance Unit and there are two pieces of paper that have been turned into what seems thank you notes to a Miss Pease from a French soldier. Can anyone help find out who was Miss Pease ? Thanks Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalredcross Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 The history of the FAU lists three: Miss E.F.; Miss M.C. and Miss M.E. Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 Hi Terry I recently did a little work with a history group in Blakedown that looked at a FAU nurse Olga Wilson whose father founded Allbright and Wilson - she was friends with a member of the Cadbury family whose archives might be useful: http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=Catalog&id=XMS327 Pease seems to be in this photo: http://librarysocietyfriendsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/rachel-eveline-wilson-papers-and-our-new-exhibition-an-insight-into-the-life-of-a-world-war-i-friends-ambulance-unit-nurse/ Work in Dunkirk described here: http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/picrender.cgi?artid=323702&blobtype=pdf and here: http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=4&album=&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fchild%2Easp&originator=%2Fengine%2Ftheme%2Fdefault%2Easp&page=3&records=61&direction=1&pointer=871&text=0&resource=1814&offset=0 Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 PS one of the founders of the FAU according to the book mentioned above http://www.saxonlodge.net/histories/FriendsAmbulanceUnitHistoryExtracts.pdf is Jack Pease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pease,_1st_Baron_Gainford#Family who had two daughters: "Lord Gainford married Ethel, daughter of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet, in 1886. They had one son, Joseph, and two daughters, Miriam and Faith (who married Michael Wentworth Beaumont and was the mother of Lord Beaumont of Whitley)." S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 Not so sure about the last two - this looks a possibility : First Name Elizabeth Frances Last Name Pease Initials E F Rank VAD Certificate Number 17079 Department Friends' Ambulance Unit Destination Dunkirk Passport Number 190346 Record set British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918 Category Military, armed forces & conflict Record collection Regimental & service records Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 The certificate number is a late one - it suggests that she didn't go overseas until 1918, though might have been employed in the UK prior to that. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 25 June , 2014 Share Posted 25 June , 2014 First Name Mary Cecilia Last Name Pease Initials M C Rank VAD Certificate Number 8035/10340 Department Voluntary Aid Detachment Destination France Passport Number 71994 Record set British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918 irst Name Mary Ethelwyn Last Name Pease Initials M E Rank VAD Certificate Number 13468 Department Voluntary Aid Detachment Destination France Passport Number 158837 Record set British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Carter Posted 26 June , 2014 Author Share Posted 26 June , 2014 Thank you for taking the time out finding the info. A couple of concert programmes in the album have 1916 on them and there are two Christmas cards for 1916 as well. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Carter Posted 26 June , 2014 Author Share Posted 26 June , 2014 The concert programmes in the album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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