Napsbury
Mental Hospital founded in 1898 for patients from Middlesex
Military Hospital during the Great War
See The Long Stay Hospitals of the St Albans area
Entrance, Main Administration Block, Napsbury
Posted February 1915, no publisher details
Hospital, Napsbury (East Section)
Card posted in July 1917 (½d postage) by a soldier called Fred who was a
patient in the Military Hospital
Entrance Hall, Main Administration Block, Napsbury
Unused and undated but back identical to the card of Ward M.1. of the Military
Hospital
The Church, Napsbury Hospital - undated postcard
Day Room, Ward M.1., The County of Middlesex War Hospital,
Napsbury
Sent by Fred. as above. Date unreadable but 1d postage suggest somewhat later.
Said to be of soldiers on a ward at Napsbury
Card by Riccardo Studios, St Albans`
Verandah Ward
This is the ward I am on night duty in.
And the ward I used to be on day duty in.
The tall boy standing is a New Zealander (my favourite)
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John Maple joined up under age went to France as a driver with the Royal Filed Artillery. He was seventeen when he was wounded and was invalided to Napsbury War Hospital. Picture and information supplied by his grandson, Ken Maple (music @t kmaple.co.uk) |
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Andrew Nixon (n.nixon @t ntlworld.com) of Paisley, Scotland, writes: I've managed to track down the Military Admissions and Discharge Registers for the County of Middlesex War Hospital at Napsbury for WW1. Go to the National Archives Website, open the Catalogue, type in the Ref. No. MH 106,when that comes up, click on the Sub Series "Hospital Admissions and Discharge Registers". When that comes up, scroll down until you come to "County of Middlesex War Hospital at Napsbury, click on the Sub sub series for the above mentioned and that gets you into everything pertaining to the Soldiers of WW1. |
See also Military Hospitals in World War One
I believe that official records relating to the use of Napsbury as a military hospital are in the National Archives.
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated November 2007