Today we look at a tin containing its original contents – medicaments.
A First World War medical kit which can be found at Market Lavington Museum
This little tin was produced by Burroughs Wellcome and Co of London. The Wellcome name is still well known in the medical field.
As we can see, the tin contains Castor Oil, for the eyes. Protective Skin, Tincture of Iodine and Carron Oil for burns and scalds.
This collection was the property of Mrs Rose Crouch. Rose was born Rose Brown Hiscock in Market Lavington. She first saw the light of day in 1904. Her parents were James and Amelia and they lived on High Street in Market Lavington. Rose married Henry G W Crouch in 1934.
Rose was widowed in 1957 but she remained a Market Lavington person. She died in 1987. Both Rose and her husband are buried in the Market Lavington churchyard.
It is believed that young Rose volunteered for the Voluntary Aid Detachment towards the end of the first world war – she’d only have been 13 or 14..
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary organisation providing field nursing services, mainly in hospitals, in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The organisation’s most important periods of operation were during World War I and World War II.
Tags: Health, Market Lavington, medicaments, Museum, world war 1
Market Lavington Museum 
May 23, 2012 at 9:11 am |
Rose Crouch lived next door to my gran, Emily Hobbs – later Pomeroy who lived in Fern Cottage. She was my gran’s landlord. Her husband was a retired policeman. Around the back they used to have lovely cultivated blackberries growing against the house wall – they tasted good!
May 23, 2012 at 9:15 am |
Thanks, Jim. I think the comments people add make this blog much more useful.
June 19, 2012 at 5:41 am |
[…] photo has been given to the museum following a blog entry about World War 1 first aid materials.(click here) although we have also seen Rose before in a churchyard clean up party (click here). That picture […]