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THBWWI Photo Albums and Scrapbooks with Hospital Association
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Cincinnati , OH 45232
United States
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LiveDec 18, 2017 - Dec 19, 2017
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Photo album, 8.25 x 10.5 in., red leather; Front cover with unit devices and "Souvenir War Hôpital Anglais de St. Jean/ Caen Calvados / Le Medical Directeur Dr. T. Newman Darling / Surgeons Dr. Garnet Halloran / Dr. H.T. Major / Chaplain en Chef The Rev. H.T. Thornton, M.A. / Compiled by Mr. H.C. Hardman, M.A., M.Sc." Inscribed to David Hitchen by the compiler. There are 120 photographs of staff and patients, ranging from 8 x 10 to 2.25 x 3.25 in. On many pages there are photographs of the men, sometimes their wounds, and the facing page has an explanation: name, age, unit and rank, where wounded, then notes on treatment and sometimes outcome. Among these discussions are 24 photos of radiographic images (X-rays). There are two postcard notices about prisoners of war - one English, one Belgian. There are many other items as well - newspaper clippings, letters of appreciation from soldiers, even a couple of drawings.
Loose in the book are newspaper articles on David Hitchen: one is an article by him (1938), "Human Nature as I See it." There is a poem from 1936, "He's only a Mongrel But:-" Plus Mr. Hitchen's obituary, Dec. 31, 1938, in which it is pointed out that Hitchen primarily wrote poetry. In that article, the writers note:
"During the war Mr. Hitchen's work was greatly enjoyed by French and Belgian soldiers in a hospital at which a friend with whom he regularly corresponded was stationed. He wrote merry letters and humorous verse to cheer the wounded men and one of his efforts made one soldier laugh so heartily that he had to be restrained for fear of bursting the stitches in his wound.
"Mr. Hitchen had a treasured memento of that correspondence in the form of a handsomely bound volume containing records and autographs of many of the wounded who passed through the hospital and illustrated by photographs.
"At the beginning of the book is inscribed in English and French the following tribute to Mr. Hitchen
"'To David Hitchen. A public school boy from the school of experience, a graduate from the university of toil, who within the limits of a work-a-day life did not limit the unlimited. He was the hero of my boyhood, the valued friend and correspondent of my young manhood, the valued friend and correspondent of my maturer years. During the dark days which followed the fall of Brussels, the retreat from Mons, the battles of Ypres, Yser, Notre Dame de Lovette, Souchez, Hartmanville, Champagne and Verdun, his inspiration counted for much. In affectionate remembrance these pages are inscribed.'
"...Mr. Hitchen ran through practically whole gamut of literary effort and his productions in addition to verse and prose included short stories, sketches, monologues, aphorisms and quips. He ranged through most of the emotions of human experience and his work could he serious, humorous and satirical...."
This book would be that "treasured memento."
Scrapbook, obl. 9.5 x 12 in., plain boards, cloth spine, string-bound. All pages with contents have cracked and separated at spine. There are mimeographed booklets from Christmas and New Year's celebrations, 1918, six photos of canteen workers and a unit band. One photo is labeled "Team No. 4," of A.R.C. Canteen. Manuscript note: 3rd from right - back row - your mother / 2nd from left front row your Aunt Lucretia." There is a letter from a transport vessel on the Atlantic, a newspaper article details a letter received by Wilson Dumble, (who is identified in one of the first photos) that was written just four days before the writer was killed, and a magazine printing of "Flanders' fields."
A photograph album, obl. 9.75 x 12.5 in., brown cloth with "Photographs" on front. With 113 photographs, ranging from 1.5 x 2.5 in. to 2.75 x 3.75 in. Each photo with label with red border, captioned in tiny hand. Letter in front from Imperial War Museum, London, indicates: "According to the Army Lists here at the Museum, I.D. Evans joined the Special Reserve of the Royal Army Medical Corps ad a Lieutenant on 21 May 1914. He was promoted to Captain on 1 April 1915, and to Acting Major on 4 January 1918, in which rank he was confirmed on 21 May 1926. Presumably he was at some point an acting colonel if he refers to himself as Colonel Evans. He last appears in the Army List for September 1934, at which point he must have retired from the Special Reserve."
Album, obl. 9 x 11 in., with gilt "Photographs" on front, blue cloth. Front pastedown labeled "Dardanelles Expedition." Photos of ships (French, Russian, and British), artillery, "General Sir Ian Hamilton leaving after inspecting the Royal naval Division...."; "A British soldier sleep on a bed of live shells..."; view from above of "Field Surgery in the Dardanelles. A field ambulance ... at work behind the firing line. the operating surgeon is roving a bullet from the arm of a soldier."; "Armoured cars in dug-outs."; a scene with transport vessels unloading horses; "The governor and guards watch Turkish prisoners bathe."; "No. 1 Fort showing No. 1 and No. 2 guns at Cape Helles."; the burial of four of the fallen; horse-drawn wagons galloping up the firing line with ammunition; a soldier in a trench using a periscope. The last five small images very faded. This may be associated with the F.H. Barber items (other lots this sale), simply because of the neat handwriting and the subject written on the front pastedown, but no unit or individual identification apparent.
Provenance: The Alan Culpin Collection of World War I ArtHitchen book with some moisture wrinkling. Evans book very good. Last album with some scattered foxing on the pages; light shelf wear.Condition
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