Edith Teresa Hulton, later Lady Berwick, outside a bomb shelter in Cervignano, Italy, 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1916 - Jul 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to card on page of album
Measurements
40 x 66 mm
Place of origin
Cervignano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610240.3
Summary
A monochrome photograph of Edith Teresa Hulton standing outside a bomb shelter in Cervignano, Italy in 1916. The shelter is a grass covered mound, roughly constructed of wood. Three wooden buttresses support the side wall and a narrow, low doorway stands behind Teresa. In the background is a wooden hut and a row of poplar trees. She is wearing a long white dress and hat, and is holding a cat in her right arm. Photograph Number 2 of 7 photographs, on Page 2 of Edith Teresa Hulton's Small Snapshot Album of Cervignano May -July 1916 (CMS Number 610240.1). Another print of this photograph is on page number 14 in the Zona di Guerra May 1916 – Aug 1918 album and is 117 mm high by 156 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).