Previous Index Next On Saturday I, along with many others, went to London to campaign for a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal. The whole Brexit issue is contentious and I feel it is important for politicians to know that they are being scrutinised. This is particularly since the right to vote is, in historical… Continue reading Inoculations, Suffrage and People’s Votes
Category: Box – Margaret
Margaret Box – another letter from Bralo, October 1918
Previous Index Next This is one of a series of letter written by my Great Aunt, Margaret Box while she was nursing in Salonica and Serbia in 1918/19 at the end of the First World War. This letter is written to her mother from the 49th Stationary Hospital, in Bralos, Greece on 11th October 1918,… Continue reading Margaret Box – another letter from Bralo, October 1918
Margaret Box letter from Southern Italy – September 1918
Previous Index Next On the 30th September 1918 my Great Aunt Margaret Box wrote to her Mother from 79 General Hospital, Italy, which was in Taranto, an important Italian naval base. This follows on from her letter from Rome, and is part of the story of her adventures nursing in Solonica and Serbia. c/o 79… Continue reading Margaret Box letter from Southern Italy – September 1918
Margaret Box letter from Rome – September 1918
Previous Index Next My Great Aunt, Margaret Box, traveled as a Nurse to Salonica and Serbia (where the First World War was still being fought), wrote many letters home, which fortunately have been preserved. This article, entitled Margaret Box, nursing in Salonica and Serbia, acts as an index to her letters and puts them into… Continue reading Margaret Box letter from Rome – September 1918
Margaret Box letters from Bralo
Previous Index Next One hundred years ago my Great Aunt, Margaret Box was in Greece at a rest camp, near the village of Bralo (Bralos, Brallos), toward the start of the time she spend towards the end of the First World War, nursing in Salonica and Serbia (see this post for further related articles). Her… Continue reading Margaret Box letters from Bralo
You need not feel anxious about your daughter, Mr Box
Previous Index Next My Great Aunt, Margaret Box, left Britain on the 17th of September 1918 to serve as a nurse in Salonica and Serbia. Her father, my Great Grandfather, John Box, clearly did not hear from her for a while as he contacted The Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Home and Foreign Service (London Society… Continue reading You need not feel anxious about your daughter, Mr Box
Margaret Box, nursing in Salonica and Serbia
Margaret Ada Box (1890-1986), my Great Aunt, daughter of John Box, volunteered as a Civilian Red Cross Nurse in 1918, with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. She has a record at Forces War Records (which needs Full Access Membership to see it), which shows that her Department was “Scot. Women”, her Rank was “N.S.” (whatever that… Continue reading Margaret Box, nursing in Salonica and Serbia