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Netley Military Hospital Names' Database
We have now been advised that the Ministry of Defence's Archives held some of the Admission and
Discharge Registers for those who attended the Royal Victoria Military Hospital
at Netley, Hampshire, UK from 1918 to its closure in 1960s.
The Museum of Military Medicine, based at Keogh Barracks, Aldershot has embarked on the digitisation of these records in conjunction with one of the "pay-to-view" military websites.
The project could take a couple of years to complete.
In the meantime, our Database currently holds about 11800 individuals plus all the Hospital Censuses
from 1861 to 1921 and the 1939 Register - and is being continuously added to.
The full Database is not accessible on this website. If you think your ancestor may have been at Netley
War Hospital, click on Contact Me and let me know what details you do have.
I will check our files and let you know what we have on file and do some research in the hope of
finding more. My research is free of charge regardless of whether your relative was at Netley Hospital or not.
Equally if you already know they were at Netley, let me know so I can add their details to the Database.
To maintain the integrity of the Database, however, I will need proof they were.
A Brief Journey through Netley War Hospital in March over the Years ...
The General Hospital at Netley, contrary to the universal expectation, is not to be opened this year.
Every preparation had been made for its use during the approaching season, but it was decided at the eleventh hour that it would not be needed.
Weston-Super-Mare Gazette 01/03/1862
Patients, however, began to be admitted in September 1862 despite the Hospital not officially opening
until 9 March 1863.
Click on Netley Cliff for more information about its other residents.
The newspapers were already beginning to report on Netley Hospital's every move ...
The troops which have arrived at Netley Hospital have commenced forming the ornamental
grounds in front of the building.
The staff of surgeons will number about 100.
The Hospital will, it is expected, be connected by rail with Southampton in about a twelvemonth.
Reading Mercury 28/03/1863
Navy + Army Illustrated P215 - 19/03/1897
The following servicemen from the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Field Artillery were reported to have
been admitted to Netley Hospital in March 1915-
First Battalion, First Brigade - wounded:
Private Matthew Machan - no next of kin stated
Sergeant William Bradley Bay - next of kin Louie Bay, Woodside, Langley, Leigh-on-sea,
England
Lance-Corporal Frank Cochrane with a shrapnel wound to his hand - next of kin his mother,
Mrs Margaret Cochrane, 49 South Brown Street, Broughty Ferry, Scotland.
Tenth Battalion, Fourth Brigade - wounded:
Sergeant A Steel on 17 March - next of kin his Dad, Francis Steel, No 68 Boscowen Street,
Deptford, London.
Free Press Prairie Farmer 24/03/1915
The Work of the WELSH HOSPITAL at Netley - Nearly 10,000 Patients!
The Welsh Hospital presented by the Principality to the War Office on August 19, 1914, is about to close down, and the fact will remind the public of a remarkable service to the Empire since October 1914
when the advance party of the staff established the institution at the pretty spot which marks the
head of Southampton Water.
The first instalment of wounded warriors for treatment arrived at the Netley Hospital in January 1915.
Altogether 9616 patients have been dealt with at the Netley Hospital including 1200 officers.
The sum raised for the support of the Hospital £80,000 is splendid tribute to the generosity of the Welsh people. The Hospital flag was recently deposited in Netley Church.
Western Mail 31/03/1919
Wigton Advertiser 01/03/1919
Death from Misadventure
"The tragic death of an elderly woman who died as a result of extensive burns caused by her clothing accidentally catching fire at a kitchen range was investigated by the County Coroner, Mr P B Ingoldby
at Netley on 23/03/1922.
The deceased was Rose Burns, aged 70, was the wife of Frederick Burns, a civil subordinate and engine
driver in the employ of the Royal Victoria Hospital and resided at 109 Married Quarters at the Hospital.
The Coroner recorded the Cause of Death as 'death from misadventure’.”
Hampshire Advertiser 25/03/1922
RAMC Sergeants’ Ball
Members of the R.A.M.C. Sergeants' Mess, Royal Victoria Hospital, held their annual St. Patrick's Ball
at the Hospital on Saturday.
Dunne's dance band from Eastleigh supplied the music, and Sgt. Major Finlayson, R.A.M.C. was M.C.
The majority of the officers serving at the hospital attended and also many friends .of the mess.
Hampshire Telegraph 23/03/1934
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of my dear husband, Sergeant H Ball, who died suddenly at Netley Hospital
on 26 March 1936.
“In the workings of our lives, each one works out their part;
but the flower of remembrance, leaves a fragrance in the heart.”
From his loving Wife and Little Sons, Harry and Norman, 1, Croft Street, Tamworth.
Tamworth Herald 30/03/1940
A Soldier was posted to Korea last November. He was 19. For two months there was no news from him.
In January his mother received a small official postcard from a military hospital in Japan. It reported
that her son, Private Edward Whiten, had been flown home from Japan. He was now in the military
hospital at Netley near Southampton. He was suffering from "mild nervous breakdown."
His mother, who lives in Ellman Avenue, Slough, Bucks, went to see him. "We have been told by a specialist that he is suffering from a rare, dangerous ailment. He cannot walk. He cannot control his limbs."
The boy soldier's mother then went to see her M P, Mr. Fenner Brockway.
He at once asked the War Office for investigation of the case.
A J McWhinnie, Military Correspondent, Daily Herald 26/03/1954
Did you know ...
within the pages of the History of Netley Military Hospital on this website, the names of
hundreds of Members of Staff, Patients, family members are mentioned?
They are on our database too, often with additional information.
Why not use Contact Me to ask if your relative is already on the database
or use the Search Box below to see if they are already mentioned on this website?
