Jessie Constance Alicia Traill, Album of photographs, 1915–1919, State Library Victoria

Jessie Traill’s photograph album details life at No 8 General Hospital, a military hospital at Bois-Guillaume near Rouen in France. Jessie joined the Voluntary Aid detachments during the Great War and trained in England before being sent to France. The album also includes postcards of French village scenes. It is assumed that the handwritten annotations are by Jessie, who was a well-known Australian artist, having studied under Frederick McCubbin, Bernard Hall and Frank Brangwyn.