National Archives UK and other places free digital downloads esp of medical archives including related orgs such as war charities

[John Gilinsky]

Can anyone please inform us where we can download from National Archives U K currently April 2020 hospital shps war diaries, records, log books, journals, accounts, papers, nominal rolls, staff lists?   Easily found the 85 hits when I search Discovery search engine but where are war diaries for Britannic or Dover Castle?  

Also does anyone know of any other major WW1 relevant archive that is during pandemic lockdown waiving fees for downloading digitized archival holdings whether in Britain or not?

THANKS ALL! John

 

[RussT]

There are hospital ship war diaries in the series WO 95/4142 to 4152.

 

Regards

 

Russ

[charlie962]

17 hours ago, John Gilinsky said:

where are war diaries for Britannic or Dover Castle?  

There are an awful lot of diaries missing. Seems only a selection were retained ?

[John Gilinsky]

Hi Russ.  

My records give following stats:

 

WO 95 4142 to 4152 = 75 downloaded pdfs including 2 pdfs with multiple wds viz. :

 

WO 95 4142.1    5 different wds

WO 95 4148.5    2 different wds

Total hs wds downloaded thus equals for 4142.1 through to 4152.6 = 80 hospital ship war diaries.

However Discovery TNA online states that there are 85 downloadable files.  Am I missing some wds?

Thank you and anyone else!

 

Edited 25 June , 2020 by John Gilinsky

[alf mcm]

John,

 If you search using 'WO95/41* Hospital ship' you will get 85 files.  https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=wo95%2F41*+hospital+ship&_p=1900

This gives war diaries for 68 different ships.

 

Regards,

 

Alf McM

[John Gilinsky]

Tx Alf for your help.