He, as a small boy visiting his grandfather, manager of Naishs’ Farm at the time, went with his uncle to deliver milk to the hospital. Not all the staff were fierce though, as Willie Langdon remembers. I wonder why the Matron was not pleased and had it removed? It was done as a thank you from the soldiers as they left for the battlefields of France. One morning the camp awoke to see a large red cross, made of broken tiles and bricks, laid out on the green hillside above them amongst the more intricate regimental badges already cut into the turf. I wonder how the Sister in charge of her ward welcomed her on duty that morning! ![]() Some girls cycled over the downs from neighbouring Broadchalke and one, skimming down the steep slope with her feet off the pedals, missed the turning at the bottom of the hill and landed in a ‘pile of stuff’ on the roadside. Other villagers remember relatives who helped in various ways, one young lad as an orderly until he was old enough to join up himself in the Royal Navy. The very newly qualified village G.P., Dr R.C.C.Clay, following in his father and grand father’s footsteps, records that he was in charge of 120 medical beds. ![]() and military nursing personnel, but these were augmented by villagers. MacPerson, 21 beds for Officers and 588 for O.R.) ![]() archives taken from ‘Official History of the War – Medical Services’ edited by Maj-Gen. The size of the hospital, which opened in 1915, varies between 150 beds (T.S.Crawford in ‘Wiltshire and the Great War’) and 600 (R.A.M.C.
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