My grandmother was a doctor in WW1. She was at Leith hospital and then in France.
I found an album of hers in which some of her patients painted and doodled.
I’ve scanned most of them and uploaded them here for your viewing.
Wow. That’s quite a discovery Quartz.
ETA one of my grandmothers was a young nurse in one of the Edinburgh hospitals during WWI. Might have been Craiglockhart though.
That’s amazing!
What a great find!
It took me a minute to figure out The Contradictory Hatstand. Bit naughty, eh? 
Wouldn’t it be neat if some of the artists’ descendants could be found?
What a treasure!
I love how one of the poems is called “Keep on keepin’ on” which I thought was a much more modern phrase.
Thank you for sharing.
Might be possible - Painting no 9 (Gloster’s Badge) was by HE Hopkins of the 10th Glosters, regimental no 015791.
Here is his outline regimental record. He was discharged 19/11/1917, twelve days after he painted it.
Painting no 10 was by William Charles Angus, of the 2nd Anzac Corps, Reg. number 3230A who embarked for Europe on HMAT Euripides on the 2nd November 1915.
His embarkation record is here . The PDF in the link has his address (Ultimo, Sydney), next-of-kin etc.
That’s an absolutely fantastic collection you’ve got there!!
I’d strongly suggest making it more widely available. I’ve seen first-hand how this kind of item can provoke such huge interest in local history and family history circles. Especially as many of these pictures are identifiable to a particular person, they’re of huge interest. As Struan has already shown, the dots just need to be drawn together. And trust me, the descendents are very willing to do so.
My suggestion would be contacting the Old Edinburgh Club (I’m presuming anything with a Leith collection counts as Edinburgh 
), and the City Archives. Give them a link to those photos, and a background explanation, and ask for suggestions as to where you can go from here. The ideal situation is that the collection is recorded in such a way that it is searchable so that, for example, sombody looking for William Angus (2nd Anzac Corps) will get a hit.
Wonderful, Quartz! Thank you so much for posting them. The battlefield pictures give me the shivers. Hope Tom Scott got home in one piece.
That’s awsome. I can’t wait for the 100th aniversary of WWI. Maybe then we’ll have some decent documentaries and movies about the conflict that defined international politics of the 20th century (and some of the 21st).
What a find. What are you going to do to preserve them and get them taken care of?
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen posted on the Dope.
I’m going to show it to a friend who’s a Royal Marine. He’ll point me in the right direction on the military side.
I’m intending to keep the album very carefully. It’s rested forgotten in a desk drawer for over 80 years, so now too it’s going to be put away, in a rather more accessible place, and brought out on Remembrance Sundays, and I’ll pass it on to my nephew or neice.
I expect it isn’t the only album I’ll find. It’s wonderful as a bit of family memorabilia, but I don’t want it to rot forgotten in some corner of a museum
As I was scanning the pictures, I became uneasy, remembering the sheer waste of life. I scanned the battlefield picture last, and was on the point of tears afterwards.
I love this stuff. Last pic is by Alexander McKay:
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=1947847&NS=Y
Here’s his embarkation record:
http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_46_2/pdf/0183.pdf
Embarked HMAT Ascanius 10 November 1915. Looks as if he survived the war.
His battalion’s service record:
Missed the edit button.
Looks as if “Grandview” is long gone:
These are absolutely fantastic. Have you thought of starting up a blog or a site to put these out there for more people to see? They’re a real treasure and as a collector of old ephemera, I know for a fact there’s a lot of people out there who would enjoy seeing them.
You might want to contact the owner of Swapatorium–she has a pretty extensive readership and I bet she’d be more than happy to put these up on the site for you.
Pvte. Roy Marshall gave me some trouble seeing as his full name was Edward Roy Marshall:
http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_34_2/pdf/0256.pdf
I can’t read his occupation that record…“car-clegger”??
Survived the war and returned to Australia 29/08/1918:
http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/page.asp?Folder=33&Page=60&Surname=marshall
Served in 17th Battalion from 12/08/1915. Embarked 20/01/1916:
I’ve already put them up on my own blog.