Wednesday 6 June 2018

Gifts to Penoyre Red Cross Hospital

From the Brecon County Times, June 6th 1918.

PENOYRE RED CROSS HOSPITAL.

To the Editor of the COUNTY TIMES.

Sir,—We offer most grateful thanks to all the following kind friends for gifts:—Collected by Miss Best, May 24th, 20 eggs and parsley, May 30th ½lb. butter, 12 eggs, rhubarb and 12 spring cabbages; Miss Price, Newmarch street, vegetables; 1 hamper, Mrs Garnons Williams; 1 hamper Miss A. deWinton; 2 hampers, Capt. Evans; 2 hampers lettuce, Mrs Gray; 2 hampers, Lord Glanusk (l omitted from last week's list); 182 eggs, per Miss Llewelyn Davies, collected from districts of Devynock, Sennybridge, Senny, Llandilo'rfan; Blaenwysg and Cray; fruit, Mr Hyatt Williams; 35 eggs, Mrs Pugh, Closcede; 1 whole sheep, Mr Howell Powell - a most generous gift.  We also offer grateful thanks to the artistes of the Music in War Time Red Cross Concert Party, who came to the hospital on Friday, May 31st, and gave us a most splendid entertainment.  We wish all our kind friends could have come and enjoyed the first-rate music and ventriloquism.
ALICE M. DEWINTON,
June 3rd, 1918.      Commandant.

[From the start of the war, Miss de Winton had been in charge of the Brecon War Clothing Depot, and issuing requests for knitted articles and very terse patterns for mittens, socks and so on - for instance, here.  By now, she had evidently diversified into running teh Red Cross hospital.]

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