T are the Tents whos inmates maintain,
They are fine healthy places in spite of the rain
They are fine healthy places in spite of the rain
Several years ago I bought a copy of a book called 'Our Hospital ABC'. Published in 1916, it's a variation on a child's alphabet book, but based on a VAD's life in a military hospital. All the illustrations are by Joyce Dennys with verses by Hampden Gordon and M. C. Tindall. Joyce Dennys died in 1991, and since then there has been a great surge of interest in her work, and I thought it might be of interest to include a couple of the pages from this small book which is becoming increasingly rare. Some difficulty with scanning has resulted in the image colours not being quite true, and the uniforms are more blue in the original, but they are still a delightful look back at life as it was then.
N are the Nurses, the right sort of wenches,
To look after the lads who are back from the trenches
To look after the lads who are back from the trenches
