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Keswick Hospital : Mabel Marryat with Ella and Violet Williams [B 26285/135] • Photograph

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Summary

Mabel Marryat, honorary superintendent of the Red Cross Depot at Keswick, with Ella and Violet Williams. Ella and Violet Williams, the two women in white, were named by the diggers 'The Banana and Chocolate ladies'.

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Physical description

Photograph; 8 x 10.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1918

Collection

Part of Album Collection

Subject

Marryat, Mabel, 1863-1949
Williams, Violet May, 1878-1945
Williams, Ella Eliza, 1874-1955
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia -- Keswick
Military hospitals -- South Australia -- Keswick
Keswick (S.A.)

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General notes

One of 291 photographs in an album that can be viewed by doing number searches on B 26285/1 to B 26285/291.

"Down beside the Recreation Hall at Keswick is a busy corner, occupied by the Red Cross Depot, where Miss Mabel Marryat, the hon. superintendent, who has had charge of it since its beginning [in 1916], has no spare moments on her hands. Every morning she visits the wards in Keswick Hospital, distributing comforts to the men, ..." The Observer newspaper, 8 November 1919, page 16.

Obituary for Mabel Marryat MBE is published in The Advertiser newspaper, 29 November 1949, page 8.

Digitisation information

Date

23/06/2004

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,480 x 1,806 pixels (6.3 MP)

Size

6.31 MB

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