Two well-worn volumes of Cornelia Clutterbuck’s hand-written scrapbook-diaries were donated to the Society’s archives in 2013. These volumes cover the period of her work with 102 Scout Relief in Belgium and Northern Germany in hospital and re-settlement facilities close to Belsen Concentration camp which had been relieved a month or so beforehand. Written initially under censorship conditions,
As with Cornelia’s many other scrapbook-diaries, already summarised by Harold Beck, these volumes are illustrated with her own drawings and watercolours, post-cards and photographs, some of which have been scanned by Harold Beck and are displayed, with captions, in the attached gallery. These can be viewed by double-clicking on the first image (or any chosen image) and using the ‘next’ button at the top.
Harold Beck has summarised the narrative of the diaries, with illustrations, and this is attached as a downloadable document below. We are investigating whether a printed facsimile publication might be possible.
Cornelia made a typed transcript of these diaries, with further illustrations. One of the three copies she made is in the care of the Hertfordshire Scouts archives.
Cover of the first volume
LHS archives
102 Relief Section - key to group photo
Vol.1 - page 2
Group photo of 102 Relief Section (Scouts) - Cornelia Clutterbuck is second from the left.
Vol.1 - page 3
Badge of Scout International Relief Service
Vol.1 - page 3
Souvenirs from Brussels Scouts
Vol.1 page 21
Cornelia's sketch of a Milepost near Arnhem
Vol.1 - page 33
Postcard - Greetings from liberated Holland
Vol.1 - page 37
A Dutch cub badge
Vol.1 - page 40
Easter 1945 services, St George's Church, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
Vol.1 - page 41
Badge - Golden eagle, surmounting a swastika
Vol.1 - page 87
Rowallan House, Schiedam - original photo
Vol.1 - pages 99 & 100
Community Centre in Camp IV, Belsen
Vol.1 - page 124
The Orphanage, Fallingbostel
Vol.1 - page 133
Tracing of Sketch Map of Belsen concentration Camp (One) and Wehrmacht Barracks
Vol.1 - page 151
Belsen Camp pass for Cornelia Clutterbuck, issued on 8 July 1945
Vol.1 - inner back cover
Flyleaf of volume 2
LHS archives
Christmas message from the Corps Commander, December 1945
Vol.2 - page 6
Programme for Christmas Music at the Garrison Church, St. Nikolai Luneburg, 23 December 1945
Vol.2 - page 10
Changes of personnel for Section 102, January 1946
Vol.2 - page 16
Hamburger Heim, Displaced Persons' Hospital
Vol.2 - page 19
The Children's Ward, Hamburger Heim, Displaced Persons Hospital
Vol.2 - page 19
Essay, originally in Polish, by Wanda Kreisen, aged 15 - a patient at the Hamburger Heim DP Hospital
Vol.2 - page 20
Scout Billet, 19 Luner Weg. Luneburg.
Vol.2 - page 26
The scouts at suppertime
Vol.2 - page 26
Polish officers and wives - invited for a supper party by the scouts - place-setting card & flags
Vol.2 page 41
Group photo with Polish wives and officers - enlarged
Vol.2 - page 41
Plan of Bomlitz Hospital
Vol.2 - page 44
Polish Hospital Camp at Fallingsbostel
Vol.2 - page 44
Letter from Major Bagnall-Oakley, conveying thanks to Cornelia Clutterbuck, 28 February 1946
Vol.2 - page 69
Certificate of thanks to 109 (R) Detachment of the Military Government - signed on 15 March 1946, by the Scouts' alongside their nick-names. Cornelia was known as "Oh dear!"
Vol.2 - page 46
Members of 102 Section, Scout Relief, with the O.C. 109; Cornelia Clutterbuck on the left
Vol.2 - page 45
Team members at the temporary monument at the scene of German surrender on Luneburg Heath, winter 1946
Vol.2 - page 47
Polish officers with members of Section 102, autumn 1945
Vol.2
Watercolour sketch by Cornelia Clutterbuck of the simple chapel beneath the YMCA Canteen - Luneburg?
Vol.2
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I have only just come across this information, but was so pleased to see both my parents mentioned, as well as their photos, in this record made by Cornelia Clutterbuck. My father was John Trout, the leader of the team from December 1945, shown above on the right standing next to my mother, Phyllis Sullivan. He proposed to her just three weeks after they’d first met before they embarked for war-torn Europe, my mother driving an army lorry across the shattered continent. My father had been captured in Amsterdam in 1940, tortured and held for four years in various concentration camps, and then “exchanged” before the end of the war, only to volunteer to return to Germany to do this vital humanitarian work. What an amazing generation. They were all heroes. Thank you Harold Beck (who are you?) for editing and publishing Cornelia’s diaries. I, too, have a similar diary, found in my parent’s attic after my father died.
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I have only just come across this information, but was so pleased to see both my parents mentioned, as well as their photos, in this record made by Cornelia Clutterbuck. My father was John Trout, the leader of the team from December 1945, shown above on the right standing next to my mother, Phyllis Sullivan. He proposed to her just three weeks after they’d first met before they embarked for war-torn Europe, my mother driving an army lorry across the shattered continent. My father had been captured in Amsterdam in 1940, tortured and held for four years in various concentration camps, and then “exchanged” before the end of the war, only to volunteer to return to Germany to do this vital humanitarian work. What an amazing generation. They were all heroes. Thank you Harold Beck (who are you?) for editing and publishing Cornelia’s diaries. I, too, have a similar diary, found in my parent’s attic after my father died.
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