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St. Neots Local History Society

Edith Bonham was a nurse at the Red Cross Hospital in Eaton Socon during the first part of the First World War.

She kept a notebook and in it some of the soldiers in the hospital wrote about their experiences. There is also a list of the soldiers and their wounds.

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An index was compiled by the late Sue Jarrett of entries relating to the Great War in the St Neots Advertiser for the years 1914 to 1919. There are over 16,000 entries. A microfilm copy of the newspaper can been read at St Neots Library.

 

The late Nell Marshall, our former Chair, was interviewed about the Society on Huntingdon Community Radio's 'Over to You' programme.

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