Edith Teresa Hulton, later Lady Berwick, and an unknown woman outside a bomb shelter in Cervignano, Italy, 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
May 1916 - Jul 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to card page of album
Measurements
44 x 67 mm
Place of origin
Cervignano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610240.4
Summary
A monochrome photograph of Edith Teresa Hulton standing outside a bomb shelter with an unknown woman in Cervignano, Italy in 1916. The shelter is a grass covered mound, roughly constructed of wood. Two wooden buttresses support the side wall and a narrow, low doorway stands behind the two women. Teresa stands to the left of the pair. She is wearing a long white dress and hat with a dark band. She is holding a cat in her right arm. Her companion stands to her left and is wearing a long white dress with her sleeves rolled up above her elbows. In the background, a horse-drawn wagon can be seen on what appears to be a bridge. Photograph Number 3 of 7 photographs, on Page 3 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 – Aug 1918. It is on page number 13 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).