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Keep Smiling

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 6 older comments, and then…
• Dru said:

  'Nah-pooh' is in the lyrics to that song 'Good-byee', isn't it? "Bonsoir old thing, cheerio, chin-chin; nah-poo, toodle-oo, good-byee..."

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Dru You are dead right, thank you! I couldn't understand what Nah-Pooh was about at all - so pleased...

• John Sanders said:

  Very nice!

• beachcomber australia said:

  According to this website, "No.11 General Hospital" was at Genoa in Italy - www.anzacday.org.au/digging/hospitals.html

• beachcomber australia said:

  From a nurse's account of life there - www.scarletfinders.co.uk/153.html

  There was one General and two Stationary Hospitals at Genoa. The first in a large hotel, the others in schools. Two of them already had patients and the other was being put in order. As there was no heating in the hotel, the building was intensely cold; it was, however, a very fine hotel with a marble staircase and beautiful baths, though at the time the baths were of little use, as there was no hot water. In the schools were some stoves which the patients thoroughly enjoyed. Later on we had an Infectious Hospital at Genoa, also a very nice hostel for sisters coming from the United Kingdom or moving about the country.