alf mcm Posted 20 June , 2021 Share Posted 20 June , 2021 The VAD records are also available on Findmypast;- https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/british-army-british-red-cross-society-volunteers-1914-1918 Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulJC Posted 20 June , 2021 Author Share Posted 20 June , 2021 Thanks again. I dont know what the connection to Thomas Octavious Prichard could be as he died in 1847. Why there should be a reference to Alice is also a mystery although her possible war work in the USA would be an interesting development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulJC Posted 20 June , 2021 Author Share Posted 20 June , 2021 I have access to FMP and have found the relevant records. What I really wanted was to view the original VAD cards which I thought were available on the BRC website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 20 June , 2021 Share Posted 20 June , 2021 BRC is working for me. Try this link;- https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Volunteers-during-WW1 Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 20 June , 2021 Share Posted 20 June , 2021 There may be no family connection to Thomas Octavious Prichard. I found the site by searching on her name as a phrase and Kitebrook as a single word and then found the disjointed paragraph for her. Ancestry tree has an incorrect marriage for her. What else may be incorrect? I had a quick look on passenger lists and although an Alice Pritchard b1870 popped up I doubt AMP was a housemaid in 1933! Maybe worth you checking passenger lists in detail. TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulJC Posted 20 June , 2021 Author Share Posted 20 June , 2021 Thanks Alf, I have no problem with the site but cannot open the original VAD cards....... VAD CARDS: http://vad-data.redcross.org.uk/images/486595/4cfc4b581352059b0421df4a1050ab3c http://vad-data.redcross.org.uk/images/486596/38a659f5194dc26a2bf5be8ba6d66497 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 20 June , 2021 Share Posted 20 June , 2021 Paul, At the end of the war the British Red Cross realised that they didn't have accurate records of what their members did. They therefore sent out cards to all known members, requesting them to fill in their details. This was in early 1919. The front page was to be filled in by the members and the cards returned to their unit, if it was still running, or their county asscciation, or the headquarters. The rear of the card was supposed to be signed by an official of the Red Cross, and this was sometimes the head of a particular Voluntary Aid Detachment. There are many variations in these cards, and not all members returned them. Some members have more than one card, especially if they served in different V.A.D.'s or served abroad. The writing on Alice and Nancy's cards looks similar, but it's possible one of them wrote the card for the other, probably Alice. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 25 July , 2021 Share Posted 25 July , 2021 Dear PaulJC and others. I have only just joined the forum and may be rather late in offering information. I am sure that Alice Pritchard/ Dugdale was a member of the Dugdale family who owned and lived at Kitebrook House for a time. I live directly opposite and my neighbours have AD and 1920 on their gables indicating that the four cottages were built by Arthur Dugdale who had served in WW1. When I moved here in 1976 a neighbour told me that he had wanted to build houses "fit for heroes". although I am not aware that any WW1 veterans moved in at first. One day I will work out the family tree for the Dugdale family. All the best Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulJC Posted 25 July , 2021 Author Share Posted 25 July , 2021 Thanks for the information. Indeed she was a member of that family who lived at the address given. I am trying to find information about her time running the Kitebrook Hospital. Its rather limited through the internet but perhaps the local studies department may help (when things eventually return to whatever normal may be). Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 25 July , 2021 Share Posted 25 July , 2021 35 minutes ago, WillCox said: Dear PaulJC and others. I have only just joined the forum and may be rather late in offering information. I am sure that Alice Pritchard/ Dugdale was a member of the Dugdale family who owned and lived at Kitebrook House for a time. I live directly opposite and my neighbours have AD and 1920 on their gables indicating that the four cottages were built by Arthur Dugdale who had served in WW1. When I moved here in 1976 a neighbour told me that he had wanted to build houses "fit for heroes". although I am not aware that any WW1 veterans moved in at first. One day I will work out the family tree for the Dugdale family. All the best Will Welcome to the forum Will. The 1921 Census, due for release next year, will tell you who moved into these 4 houses. It would be interesting to know if they were veterans. Electoral rolls for 1921 may also show who lived in these houses. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 25 July , 2021 Share Posted 25 July , 2021 Dear PaulJC and alfmcm, Thanks. Yes, I am looking forward to the 21 census! When we moved here in 1976, our neighbour at No. 4 was Harry Haynes. He had been in the machine gun corps and was, I think, a corporal i/c a gun. He explained that he therefore carried a pistol. His team were overrun and a German came at him with a bayonet. Harry said that the German, from his look, must have thought he would be the winner, but Harry was able to fire his pistol at very close range, and thereby save himself. So there was a hero here later on! My interest in WW1 is centred on my grandfather William Cox and my great uncle William Diggines. My cousin and I have a large collection of letters from the trenches etc. from WC and the same from WD but he was based at a depot and clearly had an easier war. Regards, Will (Messenger) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basiloxford Posted 22 November , 2023 Share Posted 22 November , 2023 Hi everyone, In the attached link https://www.angelfire.com/az/garethknight/redcross/stow.html it states that one man had died at Kitebrook during it's time as a hospital. Do anyone know who this man was. I am currently doing some research into the men who died in the auxiliary hospitals with an attachment to the 3rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford, and have so-far had no luck tracking him down. Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dink999 Posted 22 November , 2023 Share Posted 22 November , 2023 I cannot help with the name of the man who died but the death took place in 1917 or 1918 as the 1916 Gloucestershire Red Cross Report records no deaths up to the 31 Dec. 1916. The total numbers admissions were 1037 with 480 admitted up to 31 Dec 1916. That leaves 557. In the database of admissions that I am compiling I don't have any information on any of these men I'm afraid and a quick search of the newspapers does not reveal anything either. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basiloxford Posted 22 November , 2023 Share Posted 22 November , 2023 Dave, thank you for your reply, I've had some success in the past finding men through the soldiers effects register, which sometimes gives an exact place of death, but unfortunately not on this occasion. Thanks again, Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Posted 28 February Share Posted 28 February Good evening I have recently come across this forum and as the current Headmaster of Kitebrook Preparatory School located in Kitebrook House. I am very interested in piecing together the history of the building and its connection both pre, during and post WWI. I note the date of some of these threads and recognise that some of the original contributors may have left the site, however, rather than begin to investigate the history of Kitebrook House, I wondered if any of the contributors would be willing to share any of their findings with me to help us begin our project on collating the history of Kitebrook House. I look forward to hearing from any of you. Kind regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 28 February Share Posted 28 February Welcome to the forum. Findmypast has transcripts of the British Red Cross records for volunteers at Kitebrook. You can search by just usine 'Kitebrook' as a keyword. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?_page=3&o=lastname&d=asc&datasetname=british army%2c british red cross society volunteers 1914-1918&keywords=kitebrook&sid=103 If you don't have access to Findmypast then you can access the same records on the British Red Cross website;-- https://vad.redcross.org.uk/search?searchTerm=kitebrook&filter=Name If you have problems with the red cross search you may have to enter the names individually. There are about 40, with some members named twice. If you check dink999's post {about 3 before this one, with the list below {taken from the Red Cross records, you will have a good idea of who did what at Kitebrook during the great war. Muriel Arkell 1915 Nursing Member — Susan Elizabeth Arkell 1915 Nursing Member — Lorna Bailey Horsman 1915 Nursing Member Oxon Mary Dutton Bliss 1916 Vad Oxon Mary Bliss 1916 Nursing Member Oxfordshire Lilyan Bouverie Pusey 1919 Member London Robina Brown 1915 Sister In Charge — Robina Brown 1916 Sister In Charge Cambridgeshire Matilda B.M. Calders 1917 Trained — Louisa Charles 1915 T.N. — Mabel Cheetham 1915 Nursing Member — Florence Dening 1915 Nursing Member — Alice Doxsey 1916 — Oxon Winifred Mary Drummond 1918 Masseuse Suffolk Winifred Drummond 1917 Masseuse Suffolk Ethel Innes Mrs Arthur Dugdale Arrc., O.B.E. 1914 Township Leader — Janet Early 1917 Nursing Member Oxfordshire Evelyn Fakes 1916 Sister Suffolk Audrey Fenwick 1915 Nursing Member — Catherine Mac Grigor Fisher 1916 Nursing Member — Irene Foster 1915 Quartermaster Sussex Margery Francis 1915 Quartermaster — Mary Francis 1915 Nursing Member — Henrietta Fry 1915 Nursing Member — Gertrude Eleanor Gibbs 1915 Nursing Member — Margaret Henderson 1915 Nursing Member — Jane Hicks 1916 Nursing Member — Mary Illes 1916 Cook — Mary Kettle 1916 Cook — Dora Charlotte Lee 1914 — Oxon Isabel Mabbs 1915 Sister — Florence Maxwell 1915 Nursing Member — Anna O'Donaghue 1916 Matron Clare Maud Page 1916 Nursing Member — Geraldine Preece 1918 V.A.D. — Alice Maud Prichard 1915 Commandant — Nancy Pritchard 1915 House Member Gloucestershire Clova Railston 1915 Nursing Member — Edith Annie Savill 1916 V.A.D. Oxon Hylda Spencer 1916 House Member Hampshire Freda Stewart 1918 Nursing Member Hampshire Florence Marsh Vaughan 1918 House Member — Kate Walling 1915 Nursing Member — Mary Warden 1916 Nursing Member — Jocelyn Wingfield 1915 House Member — Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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