Diary of activities recorded by Janet Garrood, Commandant at Whitehall Convalescent Hospital in Sawtry, near Peterborough. A note on the inside front cover states 'This book to go to the County Director of Hunting Red X' and several photographs of convalescing soldiers and VADs are pasted inside the diary.


The following enclosures are included:


(1) note written by Janet Garrood regarding the staffing of Whitehall and Huntingdon Red Cross Hospital during the First World War, dated 11 Feb 1954

(2) Photographic postcard: Walden House, Huntingdon War Hospital 1914-1918

(3) letter of appreciation from Clara C Tillard and May Thornton Duesbury to Janet Garrood on the closure of Huntingdon Red Cross Hospital, dated Feb 1919

(4) letter sent by the Joint Women's VAD Department to Mrs Garrood regarding her help in finding General Service Members for service in Military Hospitals, dated 30 Apr 1919

(5) letter sent by Mary Cuffling, V. Harlock and Annie Allen to Mrs Garrood regarding their work together during the First World War, dated 10 Feb 1919

(6) Joint War Committee certificate awarded to Mrs Garrood for service rendered during 1914-1919

(7) letter sent by A. Hurrell from the 10th Stationary Hospital, Flanders, to Mrs Garrood regarding his work and pending demobilisation, dated 8 Mar 1920

(8) account titled 'Life in a Military Hospital' written by L/C W H Splevins, 1st Bedfords, a patient at the General Eastern Hospital Cambridge during the First World War, no date

(9) letter sent to Mrs Garrood by the Secretary of the Joint County Committee of the Joint War Organisation in Huntingdon, regarding a visit by HRH The Princess Royal, dated 4 Nov 1943

(10) Joint War Organisation certificate awarded to Mrs Garrood for service rendered during 1939-1945

(11) letter from the Huntingdonshire Branch to Mrs Garrood regarding her resignation as District Representative of Huntingdonshire Red Cross for Alconbury and district, dated 16 Feb 1954

(12) letter sent to Mrs Garrood by the Secretary General of the British Red Cross Society upon her appointment as an Honorary Life Member, dated 22 Mar 1954


Note - for further information regarding Janet Garrood, please search for her personnel index card at www.redcross.org.uk/ww1