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The National Egg Collection
An egg for Gunner Dixey
My mother, Nancy Steele, was born in Woodstock near Oxford and was aged 12 when the war started. She and her sisters collected eggs for the National Egg Collection scheme throughout the war; the eggs were sent to sick and injured soldiers in hospital. I believe the girls would put their names and addresses on the eggs and mother received two letters from one of the recipients, a gunner in the Roya…
Contributors
- Susan Partridge
Subject
- World War I
- Artillery
- Home Front
- Medical
- Nancy Steele
- Arthur Dixey
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1919
- 1919
- 1914
- 1919
- 1914
Contributors
- Susan Partridge
Subject
- World War I
- Artillery
- Home Front
- Medical
- Nancy Steele
- Arthur Dixey
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1919
- 1919
- 1914
- 1919
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2015-05-20 13:16:17 UTC
- 2015-05-20
- 2015-05-20
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/f0b72f4925ae9af6d80be5ad57669211
Places
- Western Front
- Woodstock
- United Kingdom
Provenance
- SOM01
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 19892
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/19892
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1914
- 1919
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:43:27.124Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z