djakacg Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 Hi everyone I wonder if anyone knows of personnel for Sutton Veny hospital my wife collects postcards and one arrived with the following Addressee Miss R Hicks sisters quarters military hospital Sutton Veny Wilts I believe the postmark is dec 1917 many thanks for reading David Gee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 At a guess, perhaps a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, with most patients at Sutton Veny Military Hospital in1917 being members of the Australian Imperial Force. Sadly my rudimentary search of Australian records failed to turn up anything useful,but others may have more luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 1 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 1 October , 2020 (edited) thank you for taking time to look I am thinking she may be English ,the card is signed Amy, I have found a Ruby hicks born 1880 with an elder sister Amy born in Cornwall but I am unsure whether she was a nurse ,or orderly whatever they are called , but I have seen references to the salvation army and wonder if the sisters quarters mentioned could be that, but the more I consider the more I get confused Edited 1 October , 2020 by djakacg type error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 That's good lateral thinking. I don't have a reference to a Salvation Army hut at Sutton Veny, which is not to say there wasn't one. But the Army did have a hut at nearby Corton Camp. I would still be inclined to think in terms of a nursing sister. I infer that the postmark is not clear - and perhaps that you can't make out from which town it was sent? Any clues from the scene shown on the card - assuming that it was a picture postcard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 1 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 1 October , 2020 it was a birthday wish and the sender also wished miss Hicks a happy xmas i hope the photo attached may mean something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 1 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 1 October , 2020 thisis the front of the card ,although it is not very helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 Rube sounds very Aussie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 As ever, I'm prepared to be corrected, but I think that the postmark reads "COLERNE", near Chippenham and 25 miles from Sutton Veny. Is "Rube" a form for "Ruby"? And if the date is "Dec 1917" (Is that a "2" before "Dec"), then you have an idea of when Rube Hicks was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 I expect that this is a complete red herring, but i'll put it here anyway, just in case. A.C. Cole is Annie Catherine Cole, so probably not Amy, and I don't think the handwriting is a match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 (edited) Perhaps this could be Ruby, born in Colerne and sister of Amy? https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2352/images/rg14_11860_0107_03?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.212231382.350611276.1601401770-119227612.1483026526&pId=43988711 From a family tree she appears to be Freda Ruby Adele Hicks, born 28 December 1896. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/1408293/person/232114121668/facts Regards, Alf McM Edited 1 October , 2020 by alf mcm info added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 1 October , 2020 Share Posted 1 October , 2020 If so, Amy's own card was quite late. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6366905.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 2 October , 2020 Share Posted 2 October , 2020 Quote I don't have a reference to a Salvation Army hut at Sutton Veny, There is a reference here: SUTTON VENY.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 2 October , 2020 Share Posted 2 October , 2020 (edited) Thanks for that, thought the reference is to a Salvation Army hut at Sand Hill Camp, outside Longbridge Deverill, a couple of miles from Sutton Veny. It'll still make an interesting addition to my notes. But you unintentionally rub salt in a wound. I've just published a non-military book on Amazon after several"careful" reads for errors, only to realise belatedly that I'd left a "c" out of "Piccadilly" - which is what I did in Wiltshire and the Great War . The context there was a reference to the feature at least two days a week at New Zealand camp - certainly at Sling - of "Piccadilly', with all squads assembling at 12.25 and, headed by a model platoon of war-hardened soldiers from France, marching past the camp commandant. Edited 2 October , 2020 by Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 2 October , 2020 Share Posted 2 October , 2020 11 hours ago, IPT said: If so, Amy's own card was quite late. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6366905.stm This sort of thing crops up now and then, with some "joker" putting a cheap old card back into the postal system. I wonder if the Swindon sorting office in 2007 was in the same building as the one in 1917? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 2 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 2 October , 2020 the card I have came in a collection of odds and sods that came with a postcard my wife purchased for her glamour card collection, she was about to cut it up to use with her craftwork when we spotted the address and thought about researching a little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 2 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 2 October , 2020 13 hours ago, alf mcm said: Perhaps this could be Ruby, born in Colerne and sister of Amy? https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2352/images/rg14_11860_0107_03?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.212231382.350611276.1601401770-119227612.1483026526&pId=43988711 From a family tree she appears to be Freda Ruby Adele Hicks, born 28 December 1896. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/1408293/person/232114121668/facts Regards, Alf McM hi Alf Mcm thank you for this unfortunately my sub with ancestry has run out but if I restart it I will look it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djakacg Posted 14 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 14 October , 2020 hello again Alf Mcm I used the ancestry free access to look up the ruby hicks you spoke of and as you say she looks a strong candidate especially when I noticed the address was Chapel house colony , along with the abstination card from bath would seem to tally up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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