Certificate of training 1910; certificate of registration Edinburgh City Hospital 1911; regulations for admission to Nursing Service Reserve 1908; letters of pay authorisation 1915; uniform and camp kit lists for Reserve; RIE School of Nursing certificate 1914; World War I passport 1914; military hospital identity card 1915
Macdonald, Elizabeth Mackay
This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive
- Reference
- GB 239 GD1/30
- Dates of Creation
- 1908-1915
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 8 items: papers
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Born in Caithness in 1885 MacDonald trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh School of Nursing until 1914. She went on to serve during World War I in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve), which had been set up in 1902 to replace the Army Nursing Service. In October 1917 she was awarded the Royal Red Cross in recognition of her service at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. She died in Edinburgh in 1966.
Arrangement
Chronological within record class
Access Information
None
Acquisition Information
Found in 79 Lauriston Place, 1987
Note
Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Other Finding Aids
Manual item-level descriptive list available
Custodial History
Donated by family to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Archive, 1970
Accruals
No further accessions are expected