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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KH/NL/PP1
- Title
- ADDISON, Mary Winifred (fl 1928-1940)
- Date(s)
- 1928-1940
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 file, 6 certificates
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Addison, Mary Winifred, fl 1928-1940, nurse
- Administrative / Biographical history
Mary Winifred Addison trained at King's College Hospital, London, 1928-1931, (gaining General Nursing Council registration 1932) and subsequently served as a Sister there. On the outbreak of war, she became Sister Tutor to the Nurses Training Centre in Oxford, and during this time taught first aid to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968).
- Archival history
Acquired by King's College Hospital Nurses' League
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred to King's College London Archives [1985].
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Papers of Winifred Addison comprising King's College Hospital certificates of Invalid Cookery, 14 Dec 1928; practical work and instruction, 1932; extra service, April-Oct 1932; Central Board of Midwives certificate, 27 May 1933; British Red Cross Society, First Aid in Chemical Warfare certificate, 26 Jun 1936; letters from Mary Herbert, Lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Kent, relating to arrangements for Addison's visit to the Duchess, Jun-Sep 1940; letter from Marina, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968), relating to examinations, 24 Jul 1940; testimonial from Jane S Forbes relating to Addison's secretarial skills (undated); newspaper cuttings relating to bravery award given to Addison following the rescue of airmen from a crashed RAF aeroplane; and reporting inquest into the death of a King's College Hospital patient from 'ether convulsions' [1940s].
- System of arrangement
Arranged as outlined in the scope and content
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
This summary guide; note in King's College Hospital Nurses' League Archive detailed catalogue.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: The Register of Nurses, 1940, The General Nursing Council for England and Wales, London. Compiled by Alison Field.
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
June 2004
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Subjects
- International conflicts
- Medical personnel
- Medical profession
- Medical sciences
- Nursing
- Paramedical personnel
- Paramedical personnel training
- People
- People by occupation
- Personnel
- Surgery
- Vocational training subjects
- War
- Wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- World wars (events)
Personal names
- Addison, Mary Winifred, fl 1928-1940, Nurse
- Addison, Mary Winifred, fl 1928-1940, Nurse
- Marina, 1906-1968, Duchess of Kent, Princess of Greece and Denmark
Corporate names
- King's College Hospital, London
- King's College London College Archives
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