Finding Aid for the E. F. Raynes Plante Autograph Albums Biomed.0111

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: E. F. Raynes Plante autograph albums
Creator: Plante, E. F. Raynes
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0111
Physical Description: 5 albums (5 autograph albums)
Date (inclusive): 1914-1943
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Language of Material: English .

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired as part of the Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Collection .
Pickering & Chatto; purchase; 27 June 1996.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9938849733606533 

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Five autograph albums belonging to nurse E.F. Raynes Plante and signed by soldiers recuperating at the Red Cross hospital at 6 Third Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England, 1914-1943 (bulk 1914-1918). (Collection 111). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Biography

The Red Cross hospital established at no. 6 Third Avenue, Hove (near Brighton), Sussex, England, is identified in online historical lists as "British Red Cross Society" or "Third Avenue V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) Hospital". It opened in late September 1914 and closed in December 1918. The hospital contained forty beds and its own operating theater. One report states that 1,431 Allied soldiers passed through as patients.

Scope and Contents

Collection contains five autograph albums belonging to nurse E.F. Raynes Plante and signed by soldiers recuperating at the Red Cross hospital at 6 Third Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England.
Soldiers recuperating at the Red Cross hospital in Hove, near Brighton, England wrote poems and sentimental tributes, made drawings and paintings, and pasted photographs in the autograph albums of E.F. Raynes Plante, who served at the hospital throughout World War I and was, or became, nurse in charge of Jellicoe Ward. Entries range from a soldier injured 14 September 1914 through one who arrived 27 November 1918. In nearly every instance the soldiers give the reason why they are at the hospital ans where their injury (from fighting) or illness (trench-foot, frostbite, pneumonia, and rheumatism, from miserable living conditions) was sustained; some report their current problem as a second or third different incident. The soldiers originated first from all over England, Scotland, and Wales, and after 1916 were joined by comrades from Australia, Canada, and the United States. In all about 40 soldiers drew something in Nurse Plante's albums in pencil, ink, or colored paints, with various degrees of sophistication: insignia, trenches, battle scenes, vehicles, ships, portraits, or cartoons. The albums contain 55 photographs, typically of the soldiers themselves, individually or in groups, sometimes with or of the staff in casual portraits or more formally-posed groups.
Nurse Plante re-used the final album when she served at Hurstwood Park Emergency Hospital between January 1942 and January 1943, although there are relatively few entries compared with those made during the First World War.

Online Items Available

Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online: E.F. Raynes Plante Autograph Albums (5 items) .