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Eileen M. Sheehan, VAD front nurse and ambulance driver
Eileen M. Sheehan, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, was born 1897 as eldest daughter of RMF Captain DD Sheehan MP. She joined the VAD organisation in 1916 and served as nurse and ambulance driver on the front. Attached to the 14th Military and General Hospital at Wimereux, north east France, she was disabled in a German bombing raid and hospitalised in Boulogne. Traumatized by militant intimi…
Contributors
- Niall O'Siochain
Creator
- unknown unknown
Subject
- World War I
- Medical
- Remembrance
- Transport
- Women
- Transport
- World War I
Type of item
- Photograph
- Photograph
Date
- 1917
- 1917
- 1917
Contributors
- Niall O'Siochain
Creator
- unknown unknown
Subject
- World War I
- Medical
- Remembrance
- Transport
- Women
- Transport
- World War I
Type of item
- Photograph
- Photograph
Date
- 1917
- 1917
- 1917
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2012-04-13 12:12:26 UTC
- 2012-04-13
- 2012-04-13
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/6db9d0141ffa949dded28b85a754ba88
Places
- Western Front
- Wimereux, France
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 47264
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/3840/attachments/47264
Extent
- 24
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1917
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:28:04.891Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z
Table of contents
- Eileen M. Sheehan, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, was born 1897 as eldest daughter of RMF Captain DD Sheehan MP. She joined the VAD organisation in 1916 and served as nurse and ambulance driver on the front. Attached to the 14th Military and General Hospital at Wimereux, north east France, she was disabled in a German bombing raid and hospitalised in Boulogne. Traumatized by militant intimidations experienced at the end of the war in her Cork family home, she spent her last years in an Epson, Surrey sanatorium (still convinced “they are outside waiting to get me”).