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In Russia with The Scottish Women's Hospital 1917 - 2017 accompanying notes

The "In Russia with The Scottish Women's Hospital 1917" blog, recreates the diary and photos of nurse Peggie Simms exactly 100 years later. She details her stay in Petrograd during the revolution's July Days, her nursing work on the Romanian front with Serb & Russian troops and her unit's return home with dying boss, Dr Elsie Inglis - part of a 6000 strong evacuation of Serbian troops organised by Inglis, through revolutionary Russia.

July 10th

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July 14, 2017

Haparanda Station

Tornea Station

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July 11th

July 14, 2017

Notes will appear here!

July 6th

July 07, 2017

Upsete Station Finse Station Geilo Station

July 8th

July 11, 2017

Westcliff - This refers to a part of Herne Bay in Kent, very close to Peggie's home village of Eddington. Sweden was officially neutral during World War One, though the position was maintained with difficulty at times, with both sides of the conflict gaining the country's sympathies in one way or another during the four years of the conflict. Here's a YouTube clip with more info. Continental Hotel Stockholm - demolished in 1960s