Edith Teresa Hulton, 1890-1972 (later Lady Berwick) preparing to leave the Soldiers’ Canteen at San Giovanni di Manzano, Italy, January 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
Jan 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to cartridge paper page of album
Measurements
108 x 80 mm
Place of origin
San Giovanni di Manzano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610239.15
Summary
A monochrome photograph showing a wooden hut in the background, the Soldiers’ Canteen at San Giovanni di Manzano, Italy . Edith Teresa Hulton is in the driver’s seat of an open topped touring car. She is holding the steering wheel, looking at the camera and is wearing a dark, winter jacket, collar and tie, a fox fur tippet draped around her neck and a straw hat. There is a Red Cross on the door of the vehicle. Above the cross can be seen the words “FIRST BRITISH” and beneath the cross can be seen the word “AMBULANCE” but the next words are obscured by the spare wheel. Ditto marks are written in ink below the photograph inferring that this is part of the sequence of photographs taken on leaving the Soldiers’ Canteen at San Giovanni di Manzano in January 1916 (see CMS Numbers 610239.11-15). Photograph Number 13 of 20 photographs, on Page 13 of Edith Teresa Hulton’s Personal Album: Zona di Guerra October 1915 – May 1916 (see CMS Number 610239.1). Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations in the Italian war zone during World War I. She married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30th June 1919 in Venice, Italy.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Marks and inscriptions
Below the photograph : Ditto marks