A World War 1 souvenir album containing photographs, postcar...

Hammer

£650

A World War 1 souvenir album containing photographs, postcards, manuscript pen & ink sketches and entries, cuttings, scraps, lapel badges and other ephemera, the album compiled by a Mademoiselle Simone Lengrand, Villa Bérengere, Malo les Bain, near Dunkerque, Northern France, who appears to be a volunteer of the Red Cross Motor Service, contents include photos of Corporal L.H. Groves and his driver H.E. Abbott, General Headquarters, Driver Rob Howe, Royal Naval Division Transport, GHQ, North African soldiers, nurses of the Hospital Florence Fiennes, Dunkirk, identity card journee du 75 and souvenirs, photograph of Florence Fiennes Hospital 21-2-15, photograph of the celebrated war artist C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946), posing in front of ambulance, whilst serving as a volunteer in the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU), in which he briefly served tending wounded French and British soldiers during WW1, work he was deeply disturbed by, with relevant cutting opposite, photo of soldiers posing at Fort Roselieu, VErdun, March 1915, in front of heavy artillery piece, photos of infantry in busy streets of Dunkerque August 1914, photos of Nieuport bombed out April 1915, various photos of nurses Florence Fiennes Hospital, photographs Millicent Sutherland Ambulance Bourbourg August 1915, official documents for safe passage for Mlle. Lengrand issued by the prefecture de police, humorous pen & ink sketch "Le Friends Ambulance Unit - Me & My Work" depicting crashed ambulance and British soldier playing croquet, signed Sam Lithgow 15 august 1915, group photos French soldiers/infantry, pen, ink and watercolour sketch of a Flanders military camp, Bourbourg, 1914/15, signed Nora Walsh, pencil sketch Boesinghe church, 20 April 1915, postcards of aviators Roland Garros and M. Pegoud, pictorial cutting Nurse Edith Cavell, identity card S.Lengrand, souvenir badges, photos damaged buildings Dunkirk, photographic postcard of nurses at Anglo Russian Hospital, Petrograd, further photos of damaged for Roselieu, Verdun, etc etc, contents mainly 1914/1915, contemporary album, (worn, lacks backstrip, leaves loose and brittle)