Posto di Ristoro (soldiers’ canteen) in Cervignano, Italy, 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1916 - Jul 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to card onto page of album
Measurements
44 x 67 mm
Place of origin
Cervignano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610240.2
Summary
A monochrome photograph of the Posto di Ristoro (soldiers’ canteen) in Cervignano, Italy. It shows a single storey building with basement taken from the rear where a neat garden with a table and chairs can be seen. There are two flights of steps from the garden to the ground floor and between them is a wooden bay resting on wooden posts, jutting out into the garden. A star symbol can be seen on the gable end. Photograph Number 1 of 7 photographs, on Page 1 in Edith Teresa Hulton's Small Snapshot Album of Cervignano May -July 1916 (CMS Number 610240.1). Another print of this photograph is in the Album Zona di Guerra May 1916 – August 1918. It is on page number 12 of the album and is 107 mm high by 157 mm wide. 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).