Papers of Anne Wallace, student and teacher of Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), Glasgow, Scotland

Scope and Content

The Anne Wallace collection includes the following records:

  • Newspaper cuttings relating to battery flag made by the Glasgow & West of Scotland School College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) students c1945
  • Invitation to Diploma Day 1945

Administrative / Biographical History

Anne Wallace, nee Hamilton, attended the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), Glasgow, Scotland. She received her Group II Diploma in June 1945  which was presented by HRH Princess Elizabeth and took up a teaching post at the College in September of that year.

On the eve of D Day, June 1944, the Major of 128th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery mentioned to his mother, a governor of the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), that his men would be forced to go overseas without a Battery flag. The girls of the Dough School, as the college was affectionately known, volunteered to make them a new flag and Anne along with another student, Miss Kathleen Goodall, worked steadily on the Battery’s silken insignia. In recognition of their work, the Battery upon their return from their overseas campaign presented the flag to the girls and the college and it was hung in the College hall. The Battery Flag is preserved in The Queen’s College, Glasgow, institutional archive.

Arrangement

The material is arranged in the order in which it was received

Access Information

Open

Acquisition Information

Gift : Anne Wallace : 2001 : ACCN 2001/1

Other Finding Aids

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Further information can be found via the Glasgow Caledonian Archives homepage at http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/archives/index.htm

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Conditions Governing Use

Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the University Archivist

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents

Appraisal Information

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 1847 procedures

Custodial History

Held by Anne Wallace, nee Hamilton

Accruals

None expected

Related Material

GB 1847 QC Records of The Queens College, Glasgow, formerly the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), including the Battery flag made by the College students

The Queen’s College Special Collection (Glasgow Caledonian University Library Special Collections) see http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/specialcollections/qcsc/index.htm

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