Name/TitlePin flag: Princess Louise Scottish Hospital / Erskine House
About this objectSmall pin flag bearing the words 'The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors & Soldiers' on one side and 'Erskine house' on the other, below a line drawing of the building.
Date Madec.1914-18
PeriodFirst World War
Medium and MaterialsInorganic, metal
Organic, paper
MeasurementsH: 45 x W: 32 mm (including pin)
Subject and Association KeywordsFirst World War
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's war work
Subject and Association KeywordsHealth & well-being
Subject and Association DescriptionErskine House became the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers during the First World War (http://www.clydewaterfront.com/clyde-heritage/erskine/erskine-house)
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/fundraising-pins-and-badges:
Fundraising was a feature throughout the First World War, although the heyday of street collections was 1914-1915, before conscription and rationing took a grip on the nation. There were flag-day appeals to support prisoners of war, refugees (especially Belgian), the wounded (especially the blinded or ‘crippled’), and for organisations such as Red Cross & St John’s. The ‘flags’ (usually paper, sometimes tin, silk, wool, cloth, pressed foil, or natural ‘sprigs’) survive in surprising numbers. Often they are found inside autograph books, with the collection of entries from wounded soldiers a particular craze amongst middle- and upper- class girls; the same girls were often also the flag sellers.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeFlag
Object numberGWL-2016-97-7
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved