Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital

  • Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow on the Hill
Date:
1914-1919
Reference:
GC/20
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Register of admissions and discharges, 1914-1918; Visitors' Register, 1914-1918; patients' personal narratives, 1915-1917.

Publication/Creation

1914-1919

Physical description

1 box

Acquisition note

These volumes were received from the family of C J S Thompson, and transferred from the Wellcome Institute Library to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

Biographical note

This hospital was set up in the early days of the First World War for the reception of wounded soldiers. It was one of the first auxiliary hospitals to be established under the auspices of the Voluntary Aid Detatchment of the British Red Cross. There is a history of the hospital by 'The Commandant' (C J S Thompson): "The Story of 'Holmleigh' Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 1914-1919".

Charles John S. Thompson (d.1943) was the first Curator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and the author of numerous works on medical history. See Who Was Who Vol IV for details of his career.

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Accession number

  • 49