Delhi Hospital Tidworth

[shazbaz123]

Does anyone know if the above hospital was in what is now Tedworth House?

Thanks in anticipation

Barry

[johnboy]

Google brought this up

http://www.qaranc.co.uk/tidworth_military_hospital.php

[Moonraker]

In June 1914 the cost of a new military hospital, including administrative buildings, at Tidworth was put at £74,000, with nursing staff already being quartered in Tidworth House. To cater for the 6,255 troops in the War Office's Salisbury Plain district there were merely fifty existing beds (presumably at Bulford and in a "temporary" hospital in Delhi Barracks). The estimate was approved by the Treasury on May 16, 1914. (NA file: T 1/11738 [file 3441/15?])

I think that part of Delhi Barracks was turned into a "temporary" hospital in 1907. And with the outbreak of war the new hospital was never built

During the war, Tidworth Military Hospital had sections at at Lucknow Barracks (44 other ranks beds, cerebro-spinal fever cases only) and Delhi Barracks Married Quarters (33 officers beds, infectious cases only; 2 beds women only), with an Australian isolation hospital at Brimstone Bottom, between Ludgershall and Tidworth, which had 117 other-ranks beds for infectious cases only.

Photo of Delhi Military Hospital here.

Moonraker

[Sue Light]

The War Office list of active hospitals dated October 1917 shows for Tidworth:

Tidworth Military Hospital - 20 Officers, 804 other ranks

Brimstone Bottom Section - 117 other ranks

Lucknow Section - 44 other ranks

Delhi Married Quarters Section - 35 officers + 2

Sue

[shazbaz123]

Thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.

Barry

[Stoppage Drill]

Does anyone know if the above hospital was in what is now Tedworth House?

Thanks in anticipation

Barry

No. It was located in Delhi Barracks.

[Stoppage Drill]

an Australian isolation hospital at Brimstone Bottom, between Ludgershall and Tidworth, which had 117 other-ranks beds for infectious cases only.

Moonraker

Brimstone Bottom was, as you will know, the site of the "Tin Town" Navvy Village where the workforce was accommodated during the construction of Tidworth Barracks, ca 1904-1907

The site seems to have been quite well established with shops and a police station amongst other things. Did the Australian Hospital occupy the Tin Town buildings there or had they been dismantled after the construction gangs left ?

[Moonraker]

Brimstone Bottom was, as you will know, the site of the "Tin Town" Navvy Village where the workforce was accommodated during the construction of Tidworth Barracks, ca 1904-1907

The site seems to have been quite well established with shops and a police station amongst other things. Did the Australian Hospital occupy the Tin Town buildings there or had they been dismantled after the construction gangs left ?

I imagine that some buildings of the navy village were retained for military use. The village did have a small "emergency hospital" to treat the inevitable injuries and illnesses experienced by the workers. Back in the late 1990s I ploughed through some very delicate back copies of the Andover Advertiser but can't recall any references to what happened after the Barracks were completed.

Moonraker

[Moonraker]

On 02/12/2015 at 07:29, Moonraker said:

...  an Australian isolation hospital at Brimstone Bottom, between Ludgershall and Tidworth, which had 117 other-ranks beds for infectious cases only ...

From the Otago Witness, Issue 3354, June 26, 1918:

 

"A rather serious form of measles recently attacked one of the camps on Salisbury Plain, and the New Zealanders who came on the sick list were sent to the isolation camp at Brimstone Bottom. At the request of medical headquarters, the Hospital Comforts Committee of the New Zealand War Contingent Association sent an official visitor to see what could be done for the men who were dangerously. ill. The visitor was able to furnish a considerable variety to the hospital dietary list, and oranges and grapes, which were not provided in the hospital, were sent from the headquarters of the association in London for special use of men who were suffering from pneumonia as well as measles."

 

Moonraker