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Sources Guide: Hospitals: Military and Naval
There is information on the records of several military and naval hospitals in the Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: includes a large quantity of reminiscences, photographs, regulations and other records relating to military hospitals in the UK and abroad from 1650 onwards. Index lists hospitals chronologically by date of the item(s) and by name. Numbered army hospitals and field hospitals are
listed under name of the conflict. There are separate index entries for Royal Herbert Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital and Hospital Ships RAMC
Barbados: ‘State of the Naval Hospital, Barbados’, Jan and Feb 1789, and letter from John Crawford, surgeon MS.8410; John Davy's journal recording inspections of hospitals, 1845 MS.7699
Cambridge Research Hospital: later Strangeways Research Laboratory: served as hospital for Belgian Officers in World War I, 1914-7 SA/SRL
Canadian hospitals in France: Record of inspections by John George Adami with a diary, 1915-6 MSS.849-850
Charlton House: letter from Sir FW Dyson, concerning closure of, presumably a temporary war establishment, 1919 MS.7285/2
Chelsea hospital: Miscellaneous papers relating to, 1722-1849 MS.5314
Colchester Military Hospital: H B Hewitt’s autobiographical memoir includes his period posted to this hospital, 1945 GC/222
Crimean War: letters from Florence Nightingale in Balaclava and Scutari to Sir John Lefroy, 1855 MS.5479, see also Florence Nightingale: A guide to sources in the Wellcome Library (.PDF version) for further material in her
papers; journals of Alfred Bowyer Barton, medical officer of the P&O Steamship Co, transporting the sick and wounded from Balaclava to Scutari, 1855-6 MSS.5960-1
'The English Hospital for French Soldiers... St Malo': 1914-5, by Nellie Insley GC/22
4th General (Stationary) Hospital, France, 1914: Colonel Frederick Smith’s "Bloodless Adventures of Colonel Xerxes Wilson, RAMC at the Back of the Front in the Opening Months of the Great War" is based on his own experience when posted to command this hospital MS.8701/3
French military hospitals: Bergues: Pierre Peyras, chirurgien-major, 1 ms receipt on vellum, signed, concerning services at, 1690 MS.7384/6; Book of medical recipes from, compiled by M. de La Tour de la Pommeraye, late C18th MS.3178; Memorandum on the reform of the service, by Vincent Olivier Gouraud, c.1789
MS.1721/8; Hôpital Militaire, Marquise: list of soldiers who died at, 1804-5 MS.3456; Barèges: correspondence, case notes and papers of Dr Delpit, chief physician of the military hospital at, 1804-28 MS.5633; Letter from M. Gares, 3rd Marine Division, to the Minister for War, asking about
arrangements for military hospitals, 1806 MS.7123/29; Charles d'Isau's notebook, incl extracts re military hospitals, compiled 1807-14 MS.3005 CF Déveille's 'Formulaire pharmaceutique à l'usages des hôpitaux militaires', 1807, and book of notes and observations, 1818-36 MSS.2112-3;
Anon draft of an article on, with suggestions for reform, compiled c.1810 MS.2949; official certificate of number of patients in military hospitals and their requirements, 1830 MS.7585/53
Gibraltar military hospital: Journal of Charles Thomas Haden MD, containing observations on the, 1823-4 MS.6958
Greenwich Hospital: material relating to in scrapbooks of George Marsh, Commissioner of the Navy and Director of, 1760s-90s MSS.7628-9; certificates of good conduct issued to Lt F Bedford, signed bu Sr John Colpoys, Governor of the Hospital, and others, 1817 MS.5315
Guyana: John Crawford: memorandum proposing, inter alia, a better site for the military hospital and barracks at Demerara, 1795 MS/Amer.98
Haslar hospital, Gosport: Observations by Charles Middleton, on reports on conditions at c.1780 MS.5992
Holmleigh Auxiliary Hospital, Harrow on the Hill: Admission/discharge register 1914-8; patients' personal narratives, 1915-7 GC/20
Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals, Pretoria and Deelfontein, No. 2 General Hospital Pretoria: photographs taken by Humphry Rolleston, 1900-1 MS.6124
India: Dinapore Division: letter book, 1840-1 MS.2128; Jhansi and Nazaribargh Military Hospitals: notes of cases at by T O'Farrell, 1873-4 MS.3704; 1 /2 Field Hospital, India: Richard Henry Havelock Charles' diary while in charge of, 1885 MS.1551
Jamaica naval hospital: List of assistant surgeons 1826-51, compiled 1852 MS.6233
Malta hospitals: Rosa Louise Hunt, VAD's, journal in Malta, 1915-6 GC/40
Military Hospital Society: Minute book, 1764-7 MS.5404
Portland Hospital, Boer War: Papers of Sir Anthony Bowlby, Senior Surgeon 1900-1, including reports and photographs GC/181
Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool: John Bowlby’s file of period at War Neurosis Centre, 1940 PP/BOW/C.5/1
Scottish National Red Cross hospital, Kroonstad, South Africa: Notebook containing extracts from letters by an unidentified nurse serving at, 1900-1 MS.6034
Scottish Women's Hospital, Royaumont, France: Notebook of Louisa Martindale, including a record of her service at, 1915 MS.3472
Shaftesbury Military Hospital: accounts of its history during World War II GC/250
Sudan Campaign: notes concerning field hospital provision, 1898, by T O'Farrell, MS.6797
Sutton Emergency Hospital: William Walters Sargant's writings on war neuroses and case records 1940-9 Some records closed PP/WWS
3rd Southern Hospital, Oxford: photograph album of Dorothy Waller VAD, 1915-6 GC/93/5
Tidworth Military Hospital: John Bowlby’s files, 1940-2, , mainly relating to selection and training issues PP/BOW/C.5/2
Unnamed hospital [?in Africa]: [Thomas] Rowland Hill's 'admissions' notebook, 1941-2 GC/2
Villa Trento military hospital, Italy: Case books of Sir Alexander Ogston, 1916-7 MSS.3710-1
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