Edith Teresa Hulton's Small Snapshot Album of Cervignano, Italy, May - July 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1916 - Jul 1916
Materials
Place of origin
Cervignano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610240
Summary
A very small photograph album whose covers are of dark grey/green cardboard with green lacing and tassels. It contains seven pages of a lighter grey card, each with a single photograph glued onto the page. The cover has a photograph glued to it which depicts a Posto de Ristoro (soldiers’ canteen) in Cervignano, Italy during the First World War. The canteen building is a small single storey building with wooden railings in front of it and bicycles leaning against the railings. A woman in white uniform is standing beside the door and another woman is sitting in the covered entry to the building. There are three flag poles with flags above the porch. A star motif can be seen on the gable end. This photograph on the cover is 42 mm high by 65 mm wide. Written on the outside back cover in faded blue ink are the words “Cervignano May-July 1916 Mrs Lipscombe”. Another print of the small photograph on the cover of this album is in the Album Zona di Guerra May 1916 – August 1918. It is on album page number 11 and is 108 mm high by 156 mm wide where it is dated May 1916. The numbering of the individual pages was done by the Archive Team cataloguers in 2013 to assist in locating the photographs within the album. Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations, including Cervignano in the province of Friuli in north east Italy where she worked in the soldiers' canteen, 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).