An
Impression sketch of French Red Cross advert by Jamie - based on an original
image that can be viewed at: http://www.thenostalgiashop.co.uk/The-French-Red-Cross-1915-Original-advert-%28ref-AD855%29/1250.htm
With words prompted in reaction,
To those of published Grace Ellison -
Made out by Cecely Arden Baillie-Hamilton,
Infirmiere Diplomee, of French Red Cross-
In opposition to the lady journalist's
Published inaccuracies of Red Cross.
This had occurred in article series,
And to one issued on 23 August 1915,
With a ‘sweeping indictment’, being made
Against French Red Cross nurses
To start in underhand compliments.
Ellison states how ladies of Red
Cross, being volunteer mothers
At the front, whose nursing science
Being little more than applying bandages -
Their status not allowing nursing
Of diseases, left to orderlies roles.
Cecely Arden Baillie-Hamilton,
Challenged reporter Grace Ellison,
Who knew nothing of basic methods
And the rules of Croix Rouge de France,
With the training disciplines
And tested nursing abilities.
Infirmiere Diplomee tells how
The gaining of Diplome Simple
Has to be gained from school institutes -
In Paris or elsewhere - being equal
To probationer of an English
Hospital over many long hours.
The student then goes through
Varied numbers of technical exams,
To qualify for Diplome Superieur,
while
Infirmiere Major is very
complex process.
Furthermore, service is taken
In military and public hospitals.
The implication of timidity,
By single or married nurses,
Reluctant to any infectious diseases,
Is perfectly ungrounded without evidence.
No hospital from war’s start, with
Such illness has seen them present.
On the rare occasion Miss Ellison
Suggests with soldiers have been
In hands of trained orderlies - pressures
Had prevented nursing detachments
From surgical hospitals, in needs
Of the Red Cross presence.
Cecely Arden Baillie-Hamilton,
Riled in reaction, told how trained
Nurse from any class or married status,
Had no fear as at Dunkirk - where typhoid
And diphtheria patients were
Looked after over many months.
'Abject devoted and courageous'
Women are the main words given by
This Infirmiere Diplomee, who face great
Daily tasks - which highlights assumptions
From Grace Ellison, whose belief
For women's suffrage held contradictions.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. French Red Cross – Its Training and Work. The Daily Telegraph, [online]
27
August. P.11. Col 4. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11812538/Daily-Telegraph-August-27-1915.html [Accessed: 27 August 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago -
Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 27 August 2015).
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