New Findmypast database : Wiltshire WW1 Hospital Records (from 3 hospitals)

[MaureenE]

Findmypast (pay website) database Wiltshire WW1 Hospital Records

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/wiltshire-ww1-hospital-records

Search records of British and ANZAC service personnel for three hospitals in the Salisbury area from 1914-1919 and Salisbury Infirmary up to 1936.

The records cover admissions to the Old Sarum Isolation Hospital, the Harnham Red Cross Hospital at East Harnham and the Salisbury Infirmary on Fisherton Street. In many cases, the patients were admitted whilst in camps on Salisbury Plain waiting to be deployed, rather than being received from the front line on the Western Front.

All branches of the service feature, although there is of course a preponderance of British Army and Royal Air Force rather than Royal Navy personnel. Within the Army, the greatest numbers of patients are from the Royal Field Artillery, Royal Engineers, Labour Corps and Army Service Corps. There are also many Commonwealth soldiers, especially ANZACs. In cases where the man’s service record does not survive, these hospital admission records may provide at least some core details of service in the Great War.

The original records are deposited at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre and have been indexed by the Wiltshire Family History Society.

Note these are indexes only, there are no images.

Maureen

 

Edited 20 May , 2022 by MaureenE

[TEW]

Thanks for highlighting that.

I just tried a search on 'Smith' and the transcription shows: length of service, field service length, wound category, arrived by HMAT St. Patrick, battalion & company and how he was discharged.

They come up via a Military Search and will be very useful.

TEW

[FROGSMILE]

Fantastic new information Maureen, thank you for posting the details.  Old stamping grounds for me with some of the hospitals now private housing developments.  

[Moonraker]

Great photograph of Harnham Hospital, January 1918 (I think).