| Evidence: | 'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home with Asparagus and Turtle Soup & the Daily Mail.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 22 Apr 1917 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Martin Wentworth Littlewood |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 1888 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Medical Officer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | [A work on vegetal medicine] |
| Genre: | Medicine |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | ?in German |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 29240 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Martin W. Littlewood | |
| Title: | War Diary of Captain Martin W. Littlewood, 45th Field Ambulance, 15th Division | |
| Location: | Wellcome Library, London | |
| Call no: | MS8026 | |
| Page/folio: | n/a |
| Citation: | Martin W. Littlewood, War Diary of Captain Martin W. Littlewood, 45th Field Ambulance, 15th Division Wellcome Library, London, p. MS8026, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29240, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| The author had just moved into a new first aid post, which was in a former German artillery headquarters. The work on "vegetal medicine" was presumably among the "souvenirs" taken when the location was captured by the British. |
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