Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 200
World War I album. An autograph album compiled by Miss Evelyn L. Lynton, working in her ward at Kingston Red Cross Hospital, New Malden [opened 1915 and closed 1919], containing autographs, message, poetry, etc., by wounded soldiers, approximately 55 entries in total, mostly with names, ranks and a personal message, also with 4 real photo postcards of the ward including 2 showing Nurse Lynton will L.S. Twite, on the verso of one stating that Twite was an American decorated with the Legion of Honour and the DCM, another card signed and dated by him, also 2 photographs, written mostly to rectos in pen and pencil and sometimes to versos, a few items loose, original limp cloth, spine deficient and upper cover detached, oblong 8vo Many of the entries include the place and type of injury: 'Left leg lost but not forgotten', 'Gassed at Givenchy', 'Wounded Ypres', 'Wounded at Loos', Frostbite at Su[?]', 'Suvla Bay' [Gallipoli], two entries marked 'Shell shock', also a pencil drawing of a suffragette titled 'Why I joined the army', a poem titled 'A day at the trenches' and a humorous list titled 'The Army's Ten Commandments', etc. (1)
