Report.
[Printed pamphlet.] Girls' Patriotic Union of Secondary Schools. Patroness: Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary. [...] Report. November, 1914.
Without place or date. [Girls' Patriotic Union of Secondary Schools, London. November 1914.] 10pp., 4to. Stapled and unbound. In good condion, on lightly aged and worn paper, with rust stains from paperclip, and stamp, shelfmarks and red label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Beneath the drop-head title is a list of the nine members of the Committee (headed by 'Miss Robertson, Christ's Hospital, Hertford, President, Association of Head Mistresses'). The report begins: 'The Girls' Patriotic Union of Secondary Schools was formed under the auspices of the Association of Head Mistresses shortly after the outbreak of the War. Her Royal Highness, The Princess Mary, by permission of H.M. the Queen, graciously consented to be Patroness of the Union. It now numbers over 290 schools and is represented in every part of the United Kingdom. | The Union owes its origin to the fact that those who have much to do with girls of school age recognise their ardent wish to take their part in the service of their King and Country at this time of trial.' Covering one and a half pages is 'A list of some of the activities undertaken' (Services to Men at the Front or in the Fleet; Services to Troops at Home and to Recruits in Training; Care of Sick and Wounded; Contributions Raised By; Saving and Self-Denial; Relief of Distress; Educational Activities; Prayers, etc.). The final six pages carry a 'List of Schools Enrolled', beginning with 'Abbots Bromley | S. Anne's | Miss Rice' and ending with 'Yeovil | High School | Miss Cobb'. Excessively scarce: no copy at the Imperial War Museum or the British Library, or on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.
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