Embroidered wall plaque entiteld "Sister Ogilby's Badge"
Production date
1918
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Embroidered wall plaque entiteld "Sister Ogilby's Badge," featuring the emblem of the Joint War Committee. Note on the reverse says that the embroidery was "worked by patient Private C Thurgood of the 8th Royal Fusiliers at Halford Manor Red Cross Hospital, Warwick, 1918."
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The organisation of auxiliary hospitals was an important aspect of the Joint War Committee activities during the First World War.
The patients at these hospitals generally did not have life-threatening injuries and needed to convalesce. The servicemen preferred the auxiliary hospitals to the military hospitals as the discipline was not as strict, conditions were less crowded and the surroundings were more homely.
In many cases local women from the neighbourhood volunteered in the hospitals part-time, although it was often necessary to supplement voluntary work with some paid roles, such as cooks. Auxiliary hospitals drew on members who were too old or young for work in a military hospital.
Many were unable to leave home for six months due to family commitments, but were willing to sign a three-month hospital contract. Auxiliary hospitals also attracted members who found work in a military hospital too strenuous and others who ‘preferred to be head cook in a small auxiliary hospital to assistant cook in a large military hospital
The patients at these hospitals generally did not have life-threatening injuries and needed to convalesce. The servicemen preferred the auxiliary hospitals to the military hospitals as the discipline was not as strict, conditions were less crowded and the surroundings were more homely.
In many cases local women from the neighbourhood volunteered in the hospitals part-time, although it was often necessary to supplement voluntary work with some paid roles, such as cooks. Auxiliary hospitals drew on members who were too old or young for work in a military hospital.
Many were unable to leave home for six months due to family commitments, but were willing to sign a three-month hospital contract. Auxiliary hospitals also attracted members who found work in a military hospital too strenuous and others who ‘preferred to be head cook in a small auxiliary hospital to assistant cook in a large military hospital
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0540/1
Associated Person and Role
Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England
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