Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9343895

Title: British Red Cross Service Card

Description: ORENAME: Beryl Frances Norah SURNAME: LEWIS RANK AT ENGAGEMENT: Nurse DATE OF ENGAGEMENT: 25/09/1916 DATE OF TERMINATION: 07/07/1917 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: New Zealand Hosp. Codford

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URL: https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?fname=beryl&sname=lewis&id=133741&first=true
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ID: 9343899

Title: British Red Cross Service Card

Description: FORENAME: Beryl Frances Norah SURNAME: Lewis SERVICE FROM: 25/09/1916 SERVICE TO: 25/09/1917 RANK AT ENGAGEMENT: Nurse DATE OF ENGAGEMENT: 25/09/1916 PAY AT ENGAGEMENT: S.S. Pay RANK AT TERMINATION: Nurse DATE OF TERMINATION: 25/09/1917 PAY AT TERMINATION: S.S. Pay PARTICULARS OF DUTIES: Nursing WHOLE OR PART TIME: whole time ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Enrolled 25/10/16 New Zealand Hp. Codford 23/9/16 - 25/9/17 Resigned owing to health 25/9/17 On the front: V.A.D. L/40

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URL: https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?fname=beryl&sname=lewis&id=133742
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ID: 9344027

Name: IWM Catalogue number 8841 (Sound).

Title: Lewis, Beryl Frances Norah (Oral History.)

Description: British civilian served as VAD nurse in GB, 1915-1917; worked as teacher in GB and Hong Kong, 1921-1942; worked for Ministry of Economic Warfare in London, 1942-1945 and for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Germany, 1945-1946

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008635
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Additional: Matches full name and details of service.

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ID: 9344032

Name: GB 271 GCPP Lewis held at Girton College Archives, University of Cambridge

Title: Personal Papers of Beryl Lewis

Description: Name of Creator Lewis, Beryl Frances Norah, 1896-1992

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URL: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/91a05a4c-d005-3364-8916-c653cdd92861
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Additional: Matches full name.

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ID: 9344034

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/04037/0273/4

Additional: Matches full name and year of birth.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9344036

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1896/1/AZ/000348/102

Additional: Matches name, year and county of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9344038

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1992/11/79111795

Additional: Matches name, approximate year of birth and year of death.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9344056

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0003049491

Additional: Matches name, year and place of birth and name of father.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9344064

Name: New Zealand History

Title: Codford bell

Description: "The 'Codford' bell was given by returned soldier James Finlay in memory of his friend and fellow soldier Garfield Warin, and Kathleen Hollis, an English nurse who worked at the New Zealand Hospital in Codford, south-west England."

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URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/bells-of-remembrance/codford
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Additional: Matches the British Red Cross, New Zealand Hospital, Codford.

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ID: 9344324

Name: Catalogue number 2014-01-01 (IWM)

Title: Collection: Lewis, Beryl (Miss)

Description: Album containing photographs (and loose prints) covering Beryl Lewis's nursing service at Duxhurst Red Cross Hospital during 1915 and 1916. Photographs include individual and group portraits of wounded soldiers and some of the nursing personnel. Named individuals are Sergeant Major Thorn, Privates Barber, Fisher and Pope, Beryl Lewis, Gwendolyn Bevan and Millicent Jekyll. A number of the casualties are from Gallipoli and amongst the photographs are six taken by an unknown ANZAC serviceman during the campaign.

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205373711
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Additional: CreatorLewis, Beryl Frances Norah

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ID: 9344334

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Minister of Economic Warfare

Description: "The Minister of Economic Warfare was a British government position which existed during the Second World War. The minister was in charge of the Special Operations Executive and the Ministry of Economic Warfare."

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Economic_Warfare
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Additional: Information relating to service in World War 2.

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ID: 9344425

Title: Probate Record

Description: Lewis, Beryl Frances Norah

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Additional: Saved from Ancestry.co.uk

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ID: 9344427

Name: Catalogue number 8841 IWM

Title: Lewis, Beryl Frances Norah (Oral History.)

Description: Use of audio: The media for this item are free to reuse for non-commercial purposes under the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Video, sound and images can be embedded with the code we offer here, and images can also be downloaded. By downloading any images or embedding any media, you agree to the terms and conditions of the IWM Non Commercial Licence, including your use of the attribution statement specified by IWM. For this item, that is: © IWM

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008635
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Additional: © IWM

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ID: 9344471

Name: Wikipedia

Title: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Description: "The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations through the provision of food, fuel, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities, medical and other essential services".

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration
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Additional: Matches work after the Second World War.

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ID: 9344479

Name: Catalogue number HU 83576 IWM Part of WORK BERYL J

Title: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Germany, 1945

Description: Photograph: Formal group photograph of young Polish communicants, the Camp Commandant and UNRRA camp staff, at Krummel Assembly Camp for Displaced Persons, Germany.

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205124601
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Additional: Matches occupation after the Second World War.

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ID: 9344489

Name: Catalogue number HU 92250 IWM Creator Weaver, Norman (Mr)

Title: Education at the UNRRA camp at Brauweiler, Germany

Description: "A female teacher gives a class of young children a lesson on the abacus at the Polish school at the UNRRA camp at Brauweiler, Germany. This camp was run by UNRRA Team 260." The teacher is not named.

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205090736
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Additional: For purpose of context of work after 1945 - the teacher is not named.

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ID: 9344519

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Girton College, Cambridge

Description: Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon and Lady Stanley of Alderley as the first women's college in Cambridge

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge
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Additional: Matches University.

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ID: 9344523

Name: History of England

Title: World War 2

Description: History of Second World War including the Holocaust and some observations concerning the post war period.

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URL: https://www.historyofengland.net/world-war-ii
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Additional: Relates to Reel 9 of the audio file when VAD Nurse Beryl Francis Norah Lewis speaks about the build up to the Second World War, planning for the post war period and "Governments in exile in Britain".

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ID: 9344542

Name: Lives of the First World War

Title: Lieutenant Charles Bertram Lewis

Description: Life Story of brother Charles Bertram Lewis.

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2645663
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Additional: In Reel 1 of the IWM Audio speaks of five brothers. Charles Bertram Lewiswas one - see 1901 Census.

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ID: 9344551

Name: Lives of the First World War

Title: Lieutenant William Mervyn Vaughan Lewis

Description: Life Story of brother William Mervyn Vaughan Lewis

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/6906102
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Additional: In the IWM audio Reel 1 VAD Nurse Beryl Francis Norah Lewis speaks of five brothers. William Mervyn Vaughan Lewis is one - the evidence is in Public Family Trees on Ancestry.co.uk

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ID: 9344573

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe

Description: Part of a series on the Holocaust.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displaced_persons_camps_in_post-World_War_II_Europe
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Additional: Reel 10 of the IWM audio.

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ID: 9344579

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Description: Background information - Beryl Francis Norah Lewis speaks about visiting Belsen in Reel 10 of the IWM Audio file.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp
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Additional: Beryl Francis Norah Lewis speaks about visiting Belsen in Reel 10 of the IWM Audio file.

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ID: 9344592

Name: Art.IWM ART LD 5468 Doris Clare Zinkeisen 1/4/1945

Title: Human Laundry: Belsen 1945

Description: image: A line of wooden tables the front three with an emaciated figure sitting or lying on top. Each of the figures is being washed by a man or woman dressed in a white uniform. A metal bucket stands at the foot of every table; a woman is seen walking out of the room carrying a bucket in either hand.

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URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/38950
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Additional: VAD Nurse Beryl Francis Norah Lewis speaks about visiting Belsen in the immediate post war period in Reel 10 of the IWM audio file.

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ID: 9345322

Name: Lives of the First World War

Title: Major Thomas Reginald Ker

Description: Life Story of Brother in Law Thomas Reginald Ker.

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5972178
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Additional: Thomas Reginald Ker married Irene Helen Lewis (sister of VAD Nurse Beryl Francis Norah Lewis) in 1924.

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ID: 9345404

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Lady Henry Somerset

Description: Isabella Caroline, Lady Henry Somerset (née Lady Isabella Caroline Somers-Cocks; 3 August 1851 – 12 March 1921) was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Henry_Somerset
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Additional: Mentioned in Reel 1 of IWM audio in connection to first placement as a VAD Volunteer " The home of Lady Henry Somerset near Reigate".

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ID: 9345533

Name: Lives of the First World War

Title: Nurse Vera Mary Brittain

Description: Mentioned in the IWM audio Reel 2, mentioned as someone respected, someone who had had a similar experience, and in connection with reading Testament of Youth.

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4943694
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Additional: Mentioned in the IWM audio Reel 2 - someone respected, who had had a similar experience, and in connection with reading Testament of Youth.

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ID: 9345633

Title: 1939 Register

Description: Number 82 Lewis, Beryl F.N. born 27/12/96 Teacher

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Additional: Saved from Ancestry.co.uk

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