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Hospitals in the United Kingdom


Chris_Baker

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Does anyone have any information about the Swedish Military Hospital. I think it was at 16, Paddington Street, London., and was open in 1917.

I am going by a headstone in Kensal Green, which says that Lt. Col. Harold Martin Cliff, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died there on 1st February, 1917, and his death certificate, which gives the address as above. He died of heart problems, not wounds.

Michael

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It was one of the many small officers' hospitals in London. It was a 21-bedded unit and affiliated to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, though what made it 'Swedish' I have no idea :unsure:

Sue

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It was one of the many small officers' hospitals in London. It was a 21-bedded unit and affiliated to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, though what made it 'Swedish' I have no idea :unsure:

Sue

Thanks very much, Sue. How do you know that? Googling it found nothing.

Michael

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Michael

The information comes from documents at the National Archives in WO95/5494, which contains details of locations of hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Sue

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Michael

The information comes from documents at the National Archives in WO95/5494, which contains details of locations of hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Sue

Thanks, Sue. It is now the Hellenic Centre, and a fine-looking building, as far as can be judged on Google street view!

Michael

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Does anyone know if there was ever an officers' hospital or convalescent home a fair way out of town (past the sports ground) along the Iffley Road in Oxford?

A friend who lives in the building now would like to know: she thinks the house name may at the time have been Chandos or Chandos Terrace.

Thanks

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I've gone through every list I have, and can't find anything at all in that area. The nearest unit of any sort I can find is the bit of the Workhouse Infirmary in Cowley Road that was set aside for soldiers.

Sue

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Have only just come across this fascinating thread...

I am sure the following have probably been listed in the 24 pages of posts, but in case there is anything new:

My grandfather and his two brothers were at various times sent to:

Southport Convalescent Hospital Jan 1917

Alder Hey Hospital, West Derby, Liverpool, March 1917

Officers' convalescent hospital, Buxton, Derbyshire, June 1917

Eaton Hall Military Hospital, Chester: Feb 1920

Endsleigh Palace Hospital, Endsleigh Gardens, nr St Pancras, London Nov 1916

1st Southern Gen Hospital, Birmingham, May 1918

Savoy Convalescent Hospital, Blackpool, Lancs., July 1918

one of them attended a Medical Board held at Southport Cottage Hospital, Lancs, July 1919

Incidentally, in Post No 26 (on page 2 of the thread - yikes, posted in November 2002!!) Terry gives a list of VAD hospitals in Warwickshire, including one at Hampton-in-Arden he calls "The Feltham Institute"

I grew up in Hampton-in-Arden, and am just wondering whether there might have been a typo in that list, as several things in Hampton were called "FENTHAM" - no doubt after some long-dead village benefactor: i.e. Fentham Road, Fentham Hall etc.

Angela

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I've gone through every list I have, and can't find anything at all in that area. The nearest unit of any sort I can find is the bit of the Workhouse Infirmary in Cowley Road that was set aside for soldiers.

Sue

Sue,

Thanks for that - sorry to have put you to the trouble.

Jane

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Kent 1914 - 1919 - Hospitals (Military, VAD, Civil, Special and Private)

This website provides an alphabetical list of over 100 communities in Kent with between 1 and about 25 hospitals down to private homes which were used as part of a medical treatment system during the Great War. The hospitals in Kent were a great mixture of general and specialist main and auxiliary military establishments, VAD hospitals, small convalescent units (sometimes in private houses) and others. There were numerous private initiatives, especially early in the War – some of the more formal examples are the Army Nursing Homes at Folkestone, one Sittingbourne VAD which withdrew from Kent VAD and continued privately, and the Yarrow Home at Broadstairs which was organized and staffed by the Committee of Management for a time. [Recommendation by Chris Bostwick][CEF Study Group - May 2006]

http://www.kentvad.org/pages/military-kent.htm

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Lt Gen asks

"How about we - the registered users of this forum - have a go at building it up, right here? General hospitals, hospitals in military barracks and camps, VAD, BRCS, St Johns Ambulance, Friends, etc etc."

On my website Southernlife I have designated a section solely to the No1 NZ(Gen) Hospital at Brockenhurst which includes staff names and photos, as well as dozens of photos of the hospital which was formerly

a hospital for Indian soldiers.

http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm

There was a Meerut Indian General Hospital at Balmer Lawn, Brockenhurst. Also there was Lady Hardinge's hospital which had 500 beds for Indians.

Caste distinctions were respected and there was a cremation ground for Hindus. In the article "A Doctor's Story" mention is made of when the NZ medical team took over the hospital from the Lahore and Meerut Division





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Anyone heard anything of Langworthy road school and its use as a hospital in the Great War? did they take gassing casualities? and any way (and yes i know this is a long long shot) of telling if a particular soldier was served there if his service record has not survived

matt

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Assuming it's Langworthy Road, Salford, it provided 154 beds as part of 2nd Western General Hospital (TF), Manchester. No patient records survive for these Territorial hospitals.

Sue

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This is my first contribution, so I confirm that I will abide by the Forum Rules.

My Great Uncle (Fred Tomlinson, Royal Fusiliers) died of "Spanish flu" in February 1919 whilst recovering from wounds sustained in France at:

The Red Cross Military Hospital, Roseneath, Wrexham - another for the list.

His mother and sister lived in East Ham, London so there obviously was not much attempt made to make it easy for relatives to visit.

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Assuming it's Langworthy Road, Salford, it provided 154 beds as part of 2nd Western General Hospital (TF), Manchester. No patient records survive for these Territorial hospitals.

Sue

many thanks sue!

matt

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Another addition to the long list: the pavilion at Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth, was used as a military hospital for at least part of the Great War, under the auspices of 1st Western General Hospital (TF) which was based at Shaw Street.

According to the club's history, 60 beds were available for other ranks, a bit ironic in that most of those on the club's roll of honour were officers!.

[Off topic]Cricket fans may like to know that Lancashire CCC will be playing in Liverpool more often in 2011 while their Old Trafford field is rotated through 90 degrees - or rather the prepared wicket is.

Daggers

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My great uncle was wounded in Nov 1916 at Ancre and was sent to Wharncliff War Hospital in Sheffield. I believe this was the Wadsley Asylum. Is it possible to obtain patient records from this hospital?

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Hi Coynegen, afraid the records no longer exist. I would be interested though in any information you have on your relative that was at Wharncliffe.

regards

Dean.

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Coyegen, take it from me that records of military admissions to Wharncliffe DO NOT now exist.

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military admissions to Wharncliffe DO NOT now exist.

Dean,

Apologies for jumping to conclusions having merely seen the dates given for the files.

They are obviously the Local Health Authority records and not the War Office records - pity.

Thank you for clarification.

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Programme 6 of Dan Cruickshank's The Country House revealed series covered Marshcourt, a Lutyens designed Edwardian mansion built in Hampshire for Herbert 'Johnnie' Johnson who had made his fortune on the Stock Exchange. During the war he turned over and financed the running of Marshcourt for use as a miltary hospital with his wife, Violet, who received an MBE for her service, organizing it. The programme showed several group shots of patients and staff. (Available on iPlayer until 9:59PM Tue, 21 Jun 2011 Click for the complete programme (well worth watching IMO) or Click to jump to the start of the hospital coverage)

NigelS

Edit: Violet's Obituary gives the location of Marshcourt as Stockbridge.

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Sorry it's taken so long for me to reply but this seems a cumbersome site to use. I don't think that I am yet a full member and I keep bumping into walls. All the information I have on my relatives is posted on my homepage, coynegen, in the Great War Section. Letters home that were published in the local papers are also there. My great uncle, John Lawrence Cohen, served in France, Iraq and East Africa. He left a remembrance, on my homepage, that I am now trying to flesh out. Will ask for comments when done.

As for Wharncliff, Sheffield Archives repled to a query;

Sheffield Archives holds patient and administrative records for Wadsley Asylum, including admission registers, but there is a break in these records as no admissions were recorded between 14th March 1915 and 28th January 1921. As such, if the records left to you indicate your Great Uncle spent some time in Wharncliffe Hospital, I am afraid we aren't going to be able to help you. My suggestion in this case would be that you might like to contact the National Archives in London, to see if they can help.

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I came across a little information on the St Georges Hill Military Hospital at Weybridge, Surrey in files relating to the work of the builder WG Tarrant at the Surrey History Centre recently. Pre-war Tarrant had developed the St. George' Hill area (the site of an iron-age hill fort) of Weybridge with a top-end housing estate. (Tarrant's company returned to housing construction post-war, but during the war the company manufactured wooden aircraft components and prefabricated 'Tarrant' huts which were built in workshops in Byfleet and then shipped to the WF; Tarrant also got involved with aircraft development in the latter stages of the war, with the production of the large - 75ft long, 140ft wing span, six engined, 27 ton loaded - prototype Tarrant 'Tabor' Tri-plane which crashed with the loss of two of its crew of six while attempting to take off on its maiden flight from Farnborough in May 1919)

The St. Georges Hill development included a golf course with a large & impressive, thatched roofed, club house which opened in October 1913. Within a year the building had been converted into 60 bed military hospital which is said to have handled 3,000 patients over five years. Post war the building returned to its intended use and still survives today, although a conventional flat roof replaced the thatched one in 1920 after a fire reduced it to its walls in March of that year. Some modern day images of the club house can be found Here.

NigelS

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