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St. John's Room's, Dore. VAD Hospital. Now PO sorting office.

Nurses from the Dore & Totley branch of the British Red Cross, who were engaged in the nursing of Belgian wounded as St. John (Abbeydale) Hospital.

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F.G.E. Hill. Served, Royal Navy Surgeon.Name appears on the Ecclesall Memorial Hall Roll of Honour and also the Endcliffe Park Church ( Congregational ) Roll of Honour.

John Addison Stainsby. Died.

Name: STAINSBY, JOHN ADDISON

Initials: J A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps

Age: 52

Date of Death: 26/02/1918

Additional information: M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A. Son of the late John Addison Stainsby and Isabella Stainsby.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Memorial: HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON

This from Ecclesfield St. Mary Church.

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Wharnecliffe War Hospital.

This is a postcard i have, dated on the back as Nov. 23rd 1916, to a Mr. E. Caster? at Stoke Holy Cross, Nr. Norwich.

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Abbott. Sister C.E. 42nd Casualty Clearing Station, BEF, France. Awarded Bronze Star 1914.

Her name appears on the 'The District Messenger' Roll of Honour Jan. 1918. Upper Chapel.

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This is my first post on this forum and I'll open by saying wow - what a fantastic resource! I'm a Sheffielder myself, and having recently returned back to my native city after a decade in Bradford and am just beginning to get the feel again for the local history (particularly WWI) of the area. I've started by looking into the local War hospital at Lydgate School and am trying to piece together it's story between 1915 and 1919 as it doesn't seem to have any recorded history. I've written an article on its patients (not quite sure what to do with it though!) but if anybody has ideas about Nursing staff there I would love to know.

Dan.

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Hi Dan, and welcome.

You could post your article on here Dan, i'm sure we'd all appreciate it!

Not got anything on particular nursing staff but i do have this,

'Lydgate Council School'

Used as an Auxilliary Hospital.

Dean.

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Dan, cant find any more Lydgate pics, but i'll post all that i have.

Greystones Council School, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tues 4th Jan, 1916.

Christmas Fare at Greystones Council School.

Staff.

Nurses of St John's (Abbeydale) Hospital for the wounded, the first private Hospital to receive wounded Belgian soldiers.

Mrs. W.A. Milner is the president of the local society, which works under the Volunteer Aid Detachment of the Red Cross.

Nurses from 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, photographed at Midland Station, leaving for France.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Sat June 5th 1915,

Open air Theatre at Colligate, Ecclesall Rd.

Concert party, Wharnecliffe, Medical Officer is Major Barber.

The Sketch is 'Never send your wife to Rotherham'.

Council School as Military Hospital, the Central Hall at Carter Knowle.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tues, April 13th 1916.

Hillsborough Barracks.

A committee was formed by Mrs. Frank Norton to feed the men their tea's.

One for RichardB here.

The British Brewers Ambulance Fleet. Fitzalan Square, 1916. Mr T.K.Wilson on the left, Mr F.Fowler on the right.

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Great, they really give an insight into what those war hospitals/ schools were like - thanks. Would you mind if I used them within my work?

Dan.

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Feel free Dan to use what ever you want. I've printed off your article and that will be my reading for later.

Dean.

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Just found this in my things,

these are the 'Hospital Blues' mentioned in Dan's article above.

They weren't made with white lapels and turn ups, they had high necks and the men used to turn the collar down to make lapels, same with the turn-ups.

Dean.

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Got to see and photograph this yesterday.

Inscription -

DURING

THE GREAT WAR

OF 1914 -1919 THIS BUILDING WAS

ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINED

AS A HOSPITAL FOR BRITISH

SICK AND WOUNDED : THE ARMY

COUNCIL IN THE NAME OF THE

NATION THANK THOSE WHO HAVE

RENDERED TO IT THIS VALUABLE

AND PATRIOTIC ASSISTANCE IN

THE HOUR OT ITS EMERGENCY

AND THEY DESIRE ALSO TO EXPRESS

THEIR DEEP APPRECIATION OF THE

WHOLE-HEARTED ATTENTION

WHICH THE STAFF OF THIS HOSPITAL

GAVE TO THE PATIENTS WHO WERE

UNDER THEIR CARE : THE WAR HAS

ONCE AGAIN CALLED UPON THE

DEVOTION AND SELF SACRIFICE

OF BRITISH MEN AND WOMEN

AND THE NATION WILL REMEMBER

WITH PRIDE AND GRATITUDE

THEIR WILLING AND

INESTIMABLE SERVICE

from St Aidans Church in the grounds of Middlewood.

Dean.

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