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Napsbury Hospital Mental Hospital founded in 1898 for patients from Middlesex Military Hospital during the Great War |
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Napsbury Hospital Napsbury Hospital, A Unique Community, 1905-1999, |
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 Field 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 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. |
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Group photographs of soldiers in Napsbury Hospital |
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See also Military Hospitals in World War One
| Jo-Ann Mandat of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, writes: My Grandmother, Elsie Elizabeth Kiff (nee Lovering) was a nurse at Napsbury during WWI. We have photos similar to those on your website, taken both inside and outside of the hospital, showing both soldiers and nurses. I have one very similar to that one taken inside (the one with people lounging on beds and the nurse standing by poles) but these show my grandmother in them. Obviously they were from different wards. It is so thrilling to see this website (I was searching for info about WWI to share with my History students). |
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Driver Victor Woodwards No 825072 Royal Field Artillery |
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Rohan Price (rolar @t talktalk.net) of Gloucester provided this post card, by Riccardo Studio, St Albans, and wrote: Grandfather is in the last bed back right ( with moustache) . He was in The Royal Field Artillery. He served from 21/3/1910, and was injured in France on 10/9/1917 and was returned to England 23/9/1917 and hence his hospital stay in St Albans. The injuries were a compound fracture of the clavicle and partial loss of use of the right arm .He was Honourably Discharged on 25/12/1917 Disabled, He also suffered until his death in 1953 with breathing problems from the effects of gas . During some time in his army career he and one of his brothers re-engaged for war in the 1/3 Gloucester Battery of the R. F. A. The date of which I am still investigating. |
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To allow patients to order extra copies the card carries a negative number. In this case the number is 7898 and we know it must have been taken between 23/9/1917 and 25/12/1917. This means that the earlier post card by Riccardo Studios, which has the number 8627A was taken in 1918 or later. Collecting the numbers of datable cards, such as this one, make it possible to provide approximate dates for others in the series. |
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Mrs
J Burns (pjmburns
@t
tiscali.co.uk) writes: I was trying to track the
hospitals and came across your site and discovered that I have
copies of some of the postcards you have on your site and I also
have the following numbers (now I know what they are): 7982, 8604, 8608, 860? (it looks like a backwards 5
but could be a poor 8). 8628, 8631, 8632 (reproduced on
right). These have all come to light in a case
of photos given to me by my Dad (these have come from my
Grandfather who is on some of the cards). As I have not checked
the whole case there may be others. |
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If you know of other books, websites, pictures, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
| June 2010 | Contribution by Jo-Ann | |
| January 2011 | Contribution by Rohan | |
| April 2011 | Contribution by J Burns |
