Stanley Camp/Baag papers

Submitted by debcoxon on Mon, 06/08/2020 - 21:25

Hello all, 

long time since I posted, whilst researching story of my grandmother Martha Jane (Joan) Staple and great-aunt Isa Warbrick - life events intervened but also much found including two 'lost' relatives on grandfather's (Kenneth Kingsley Staple) side.  Thanks to lockdown and an eye operation, now at last on my Stanley Camp chapter.  Can someone advise on whether I can use info from the Baag papers on this site? Also whether Geoffrey Emerson can be contacted should I need to credit him? I have few facts or stories to go on and trying to piece together some flavour of my grandma & great-aunt's time in camp as accurately as possible though much info conflicts. Any advice re the most reliable info would be much appreciated? I did have some invaluable correspondence with the late Barbara Anslow, my best primary source! thanks, Deb Coxon 

"Can someone advise on whether I can use info from the Baag papers on this site?"

Do you mean can you reproduce extracts from them in your book? I doubt there will be any problem with that but It's always good to contact the person who posted them originally, and offer to credit them in your book.

"Also whether Geoffrey Emerson can be contacted should I need to credit him?"

If you write an email to Geoff and send it to me, I can forward it to him.

"much info conflicts. Any advice re the most reliable info would be much appreciated?"

The information that was written closest to the event described is usually the most accurate. So diaries written the same day are usually better than memoirs written several decades later.

Regards, David

Thank you - will email you re Geoffrey Emerson. I don't want to reproduce extracts from Baag, just insert relevant info - mainly re Tweed Bay Hospital and the medical staff. It's a long way from being a book but as my relatives, like many, said very little about their experiences I'm trying to construct a picture of their time in Stanley around scant family folklore, what I and a cousin remember, plus info on record - there is very little, if anything directly relating to the Government nurses. (pre-war, I have gleaned some info from civil lists). Also trying to find Dr Newton's papers in Imperial War Museum but no luck so far.