WSD - Film of Wounded Soldiers' Day - Catalogue of the records held at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Series WSD - Film of Wounded Soldiers' Day

Date Range	1916
Quantity	7 cm, 2 reels and videotapes
Provenance	Bethlem Royal Hospital
Description	'Wounded Soldiers' Day' was a social event held in the grounds of Bethlem Royal Hospital on 28 July 1916 at which some 300 wounded soldiers resident in London hospitals attended, along with hospital staff and various dignataries. A 35mm silent black and white film of the event, complete with titles written by Rev E.G. O'Donoghue, Bethlem chaplain and chronicler, was made for the hospital by a Mr Pearce of the Essenay Company, an American film company which opened a London office, headed by Harry A. Spoor, in 1909.
Related Series
Part of	09 Pictorial

Inventory Listing

WSD-01	Film of 'Wounded Soldiers' Day'
	This original nitrate copy of the film is deposited at the National Film and Television Association, British Film Institute, for safekeeping. It has been copied onto videotape (see WSD-02). The film features, among others, Lt. Col James Copeland (Treasurer), Rev R Scott Mylne (governor), Edmund Stone (governor), Catherine Farnham (governor), J Knott Brown (governor), Dr John Porter-Phillips (physician), his wife, Kathleen Porter-Phillips, and his children, Stella and Barbara Porter-Phillips, Rev Geoffrey O'Donoghue (chaplain), Sarah Hearder (matron), Frederick Todd (dental surgeon), Ernest Clark (head attendant), Kate Sawkins (nurse), A Reddaway (nurse), Alice Neave (nurse), Alfred Bowditch (attendant), Albert Coston (attendant) and J Chittenden (attendant). This item contains references to: repatriation hospitals; DISABLED WAR VETERANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; leisure; Copeland, James Alfred; Mylne, R Scott; Stone, Edmund; Farnham, Catherine; Brown, J Knott; Phillips, John George Porter; Phillips, Kathleen Phyllis Porter; Phillips, Barbara Porter; Phillips, Stella Porter; O'Donoghue, Edward Geoffrey; Hearder, Sarah Christine; Todd, Frederick; Clark, Ernest; Sawkins, Kate; Reddaway, A; Neave, Alice M; Bowditch, Alfred Philip; Coston, Albert J; Chittenden, J Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital Date range 28 July 1916 Quantity 5 cm, 1 reel Formats Movie Film Inventory Identifier WSD-01 Series Box Number BFI Series WSD
WSD-02	Film of 'Wounded Soldiers' Day'
	This is a copy of the original nitrate copy of the film deposited at the National Film and Television Association, British Film Institute, for safekeeping (WSD-01). The film features, among others, Lt. Col James Copeland (Treasurer), Rev R Scott Mylne (governor), Edmund Stone (governor), Catherine Farnham (governor), J Knott Brown (governor), Dr John Porter-Phillips (physician), his wife, Kathleen Porter-Phillips, and his children, Stella and Barbara Porter-Phillips, Rev Geoffrey O'Donoghue (chaplain), Sarah Hearder (matron), Frederick Todd (dental surgeon), Ernest Clark (head attendant), Kate Sawkins (nurse), A Reddaway (nurse), Alice Neave (nurse), Alfred Bowditch (attendant), Albert Coston (attendant) and J Chittenden (attendant). This item contains references to: repatriation hospitals; DISABLED WAR VETERANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; leisure; Copeland, James Alfred; Mylne, R Scott; Stone, Edmund; Farnham, Catherine; Brown, J Knott; Phillips, John George Porter; Phillips, Kathleen Phyllis Porter; Phillips, Barbara Porter; Phillips, Stella Porter; O'Donoghue, Edward Geoffrey; Hearder, Sarah Christine; Todd, Frederick; Clark, Ernest; Sawkins, Kate; Reddaway, A; Neave, Alice M; Bowditch, Alfred Philip; Coston, Albert J; Chittenden, J Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital Date range 28 July 1916 Quantity 2 cm, 1 videotape Formats Video Tapes Inventory Identifier WSD-02 Series Box Number E4-1 Series WSD

Published by the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, 14 May 2014
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