Halifax Explosion (4 results)

Condition: New.

Note reads "Dear Allie:The other day thru Miss B. Macdonald I heard you & Bill & the Baby had met with some misfortune due to the disaster at Halifax. I do wish you would let me hear from you thru some source. I wrote ages ago to you but do not know whether you ever received it. I so often think of you & of the many pleasant times you & I spent together. And to think I am here in France & Caring for the British Tommies too. Pecks(?) of love .Write soon. E.A. MacDonel(?) #1 General Hospital B.E.F. France (Presby,U.S.A.)". E.A. may be an American nurse as the hospital she refers to was originally No.1 General Hospital BEF at Etretat on the Normandy coast. In 1917 it was taken over by the US Army mainly with Doctors and nurses from The Presbyterian Hospital of New York and Columbia University to help in the war effort. It thus became Base Hospital No.2. The "B.Macdonald" may well be Beatrice Macdonald (who was Canadian ) . She was severely wounded at Ypres in 1917 ; returned to action at this hospital and received the Distinguished Service from the US Gov't. amongst other medals and decorations. Tiny part of the location caption cut out. No address or postmark . Was likely sent with other correspondence under separate cover. Some light staining to view Coloured photo view of les Falaises et l'Aiguille.

(First Edition). 32 Pp. 45 Views of the greatest Disaster in the history of the American Continent. The complete title is 'Devastated Halifax : Views of the Greatest Disaster in the history of the American Continent: caused by the explosion that followed the collision of the French Munition Ship 'Mont Blanc' and the Belgian Relief Ship 'Imo' in Halifax Harbour, December 6th, 1917'. Card covers sunned along edges & sl. worn, interior is vg. Decorative light brown card covers.

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