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This website was set up and is maintained by Dick Robinson (my grandfather, Sydney Appleton, was Edie's younger brother).  My cousins, Jill and Piers Stainforth (we share Sydney as our grandfather) who live in Canada, helped with turning the typed and handwritten diaries into text and provided background material and photographs.  We are advised and supervised by Anne Stainforth (Piers' and Jill's mother and Dick's aunt) who is 92, lives in Victoria, BC, and was Edie's favourite niece.  Here are two photos (July 2007) of Anne reading the diaries in Canada.

It has been an emotional rollercoaster for us transcribing Edie's diaries and we are immensely proud of her.  How can our generation, born in the 1940s, ever really understand how it was for people like our great aunt, Edie?  Well, perhaps this very personal account of one brave, resourceful and remarkable woman helps to enlighten us.

As we have already said, if by some great good fortune you are reading these diaries and can perhaps shed light on where the missing volumes got to, we would love to hear from you, via the Visitor's Book *.  The missing sections are:

• late 1914 to 5 April 1915 (see notes on Volume 1)

• 16 November 1916 to 20 June 1918, and

• 27 December 1918 to some time in 1919.

Or if you know of any other references to Edith Appleton and her nursing colleagues, for example in the records of nursing institutions (Barts Hospital, perhaps), do get in touch. 

* The alternative to the Visitors Book is to email us at ediesdiaries@gmail.com.

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