Devils Own Posted 6 August , 2010 Share Posted 6 August , 2010 Hi Everybody I recently got hold of a photo of my GD in a hospital after WWI. He is wearing the blue and white uniform associated with it. He was wounded and taken prisoner in October 1918 and was taken to hospital in Koln. I assuming that the picture is of a British hospital following his return to Britain (as he has the uniform on). Is there any way of working out were the hospital was and if there were any lists of patients? Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 6 August , 2010 Share Posted 6 August , 2010 Steve Have you checked for his service record yet ? You could add his name and unit details here and there might be more of a response when this is known. Sotonmate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Own Posted 6 August , 2010 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2010 Steve Have you checked for his service record yet ? You could add his name and unit details here and there might be more of a response when this is known. Sotonmate Burnt, I'm afraid. But I pretty much know about most of his record. I am just trying to fill in the hospital bit. Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 6 August , 2010 Share Posted 6 August , 2010 Steve Is it possible that you could post the photo? Members might be able to identify the hospital. You never know Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 6 August , 2010 Share Posted 6 August , 2010 Steve In the absence of specifics the casualty records have a representative sample retained at the National Archives under MH106,but by far the majority was destroyed after a study was carried out between the wars. In short,it is unlikely that any record will have survived. Sotonmate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Own Posted 6 August , 2010 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2010 There you go. Not much to go on I think. But it must be in the UK? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Own Posted 6 August , 2010 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2010 I suppose I am really wondering if there were a set number of specific clearing hospitals of which this must be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 7 August , 2010 Share Posted 7 August , 2010 DO I have seen a similar photo which was of the "Welsh Huts" extensions for WW1 at Netley Military Hospital on Southampton Water. If that is so then a message I was given by the RAMC Archives at Keogh Barracks Aldershot a few years back stated that no records have survived. Whatever was left was lost in a fire at Netley in the 60s,when that large edifice was very much in the run-down phase. I now drive over some of it's brick- and stone-work on my way into Southampton,as it forms part of the Redbridge Causeway on the west side of the City. For the really curious it also forms part of the seafront at Milford-on-Sea ! Sotonmate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Own Posted 8 August , 2010 Author Share Posted 8 August , 2010 Thanks Soton. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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