Military Hospitals include the permanent hospital buildings and the buildings commandeered during wars to acts as hospital. These websites may also contain information about the nurses and doctors who served there. The Red Cross have also played major roles in many wars and conflicts.
Classification: | World War II, Hospitals / Nursing, Other |
Title: | Amersham Village Website |
Link: | http://www.amersham.org.uk/ |
Description: | Amersham Village Website |
Extra Info: | Includes aircraft crashes in the area as well as other details of the area during WWII. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Academy / Training / Cadets, Information, Other |
Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
Link: | https://www.britishpathe.com |
Description: | British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970 |
Extra Info: | All sorts of social and military history on film. |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital Taplow, Maidenhead, Berkshire |
Link: | http://www.crcmh.com/ |
Description: | Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital Taplow, Maidenhead, Berkshire |
Extra Info: | Includes a visual tour around the hospital site as it is now. Very little history is known of the hospital. |
Classification: | Discharge / Pension Records, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Chelsea Royal Hospital Discharged Soldier List |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~leighann/history/di... |
Description: | Chelsea Royal Hospital Discharged Soldier List |
Extra Info: | Mainly from the early 1800's. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/diaryofnursingsi00nursu... |
Description: | Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 |
Extra Info: | Online book. A great diary about her experiences on the Western Front. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | Edith Elizabeth Appletons WWI Diaries |
Link: | http://www.edithappleton.org.uk/ |
Description: | Edith Elizabeth Appletons WWI Diaries 1914-19 |
Extra Info: | The site displays the remarkable diaries which Edith Elizabeth Appleton wrote while nursing in Northern France from 1914 to 1919. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing, Other |
Title: | Exeter memories |
Link: | http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/ |
Description: | Exeter memories - Stories from Exeter |
Extra Info: | Includes details of the casualties at Jutland and the Somme. |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | FANY - Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps |
Link: | https://www.fany.org.uk/ |
Description: | First Aid Nursing Yeomanry - Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps |
Extra Info: | Formed in 1907. During the First World War, FANYs ran field hospitals, drove ambulances and set up soup kitchens and troop canteens, often under highly dangerous conditions. They have been awarded 17 military medals. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall |
Description: | Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship |
Extra Info: | Online book. A chaplain's experiences of the Great War on a Hospital Ship. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Friends Ambulance Unit First World War Personnel |
Link: | https://fau.quaker.org.uk/ |
Description: | Friends Ambulance Unit First World War Personnel |
Extra Info: | The Friends Ambulance Unit (1914-1919) was a civilian volunteer ambulance service set up by a group of Quakers during World War I. Its members from 1914-1919, both Quaker and non-Quaker, totalled over 1000. Many entries have photographs. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Friends of Dundee City Archives |
Link: | http://www.fdca.org.uk/ |
Description: | Friends of Dundee City Archives - Online Databases |
Extra Info: | Includes militia list 1799, roll of honour, casulaties into the red cross hosiptals and more. |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Newspapers |
Title: | Illustrated London News Archive |
Link: | https://www.iln.org.uk/index.htm |
Description: | Illustrated London News Archive |
Extra Info: | Includes pictures of the Zulu war, ships of the Royal Navy, the Blitz and more. |
Classification: | Boer Wars, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/imperialyeomanr00howeg... |
Description: | Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa 1900-1902 Vol 2 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Account of the Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital and Bearer Company in South Africa. Includes a list of personnel and their service. |
Classification: | Boer Wars, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/imperialyeomanr01howeg... |
Description: | Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa 1900-1902 Vol 1 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Account of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals. Mainly reports, but does include lists of personnel, and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Kemsing Heritage Centre |
Link: | http://www.kemsingheritagecentre.org.uk/wordpress/ |
Description: | Kemsing Heritage Centre and Information |
Extra Info: | Includes details of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital 6A at St Edith Hall Kemsing 1914-1918. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Pictures / Photographs, Hospitals / Nursing, Medals / Awards, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | KISSACK Genealogy |
Link: | https://www.kissack.co.uk |
Description: | KISSACK Genealogy |
Extra Info: | Mainly on the Isle of Man. Includes some photographs and military details of KISSACK's. |
Classification: | Pictures / Photographs, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Manchester Local Image Collection |
Link: | https://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session... |
Description: | Manchester Local Image Collection |
Extra Info: | Over 80,000 pictures and prints of old Manchester, including some of the Manchester Regiment, the battalions around the time of WW1, also local military hospitals and more. |
Classification: | Crimean War, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Medical Officers of the Crimea |
Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Indexes/Crimea/ |
Description: | Medical Officers of the Crimea |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Crimean War, Service Records, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Military Nurses 1856-1994 |
Link: | Records of almost 4,000 brave women who served between 1856 and 1994 by Find My Past |
Description: | Records of almost 4,000 brave women who served between 1856 and 1994 by Find My Past |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Murrayfield Parish Church - Roll of Honour / Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourresi1917mu... |
Description: | Murrayfield Parish Church - Roll of Honour / Service to December 1917 |
Extra Info: | Online book.Includes residents of the parish, church members and adherents, ex-members of the 44th company boys brigade. With unit and rank listed. Also army nursing staff, red cross and voluntary workers. |
Classification: | World War I, Prisoners of War, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | My Experiences as a German Prisoner |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/myexperiencesasg00austr... |
Description: | My Experiences as a German Prisoner, L.J.Austin FRCS, a Member of the British Red Cross Society |
Extra Info: | Online book. Chronicles his experiences from capture, through the prison camps, to his eventual release. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Army, World War I, World War II, Napoleonic Wars, Service Records, Hospitals / Nursing, Medals / Awards, Other |
Title: | National Archives - Online Army Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Army Records and Indexes |
Extra Info: | Includes army campaign medals from WWI, service records for Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, prisoners of war reports and interviews and much more. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Army, World War I, World War II, Napoleonic Wars, Service Records, Hospitals / Nursing, Medals / Awards, Information, Other |
Title: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes (UK) |
Extra Info: | Includes army, navy, air force, marines, merchant seamen and more. Many detailed records require payment. |
Classification: | Boer Wars, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Nursing in the Boer War |
Link: | https://boerwarnurses.com/ |
Description: | Nursing in the Boer War - Nurses and Others Who Cared for the Sick and Wounded |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Pictures / Photographs, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Parish of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire |
Link: | http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/ |
Description: | Winterbourne Family History, Online |
Extra Info: | Look under Archives for WWI roll of honour. Includes photographs of many soldier at Cleve Hill hospital, Downend, Bristol during WWI. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Link: | https://vad.redcross.org.uk/ |
Description: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Extra Info: | Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross at home and overseas during the war. More names still to add. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Pictures / Photographs, Ships, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Rhondda Cynon Taf Library - Digital Archive |
Link: | https://archive.rctcbc.gov.uk/home?WINID=157320840... |
Description: | Rhondda Cynon Taf Library - Digital Archive |
Extra Info: | Includes photographs of some war memorials, soldiers, ambulance trains and much more. |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Hospitals / Nursing, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Link: | http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html |
Description: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Extra Info: | Includes the war diary of the Matron-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force for 1914-1919. Also list of British general hospitals in WWII and nursing rolls from WWII. |
Classification: | Army, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Somerset Indexes - SW Heritage Trust |
Link: | https://somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk/indexes |
Description: | Somerset Indexes - SW Heritage Trust |
Extra Info: | Some indexes of the Somerset Light Infantry ; Taunton WW1 returns lists 1919 and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | The History of Newton-Le-Willows and Earlstown |
Link: | https://www.newton-le-willows.com/ |
Description: | The History of Newton-Le-Willows and Earlstown |
Extra Info: | Click on local history and scroll through the pages of articles for items on the battle of Winwick Pass, details of the war memorial hospital and more. |
Classification: | Army, World War I, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Maps |
Title: | The Long, Long Trail |
Link: | https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ |
Description: | The Long, Long Trail - The British Army in th First World War |
Extra Info: | A site with a wealth of information, including war diaries, commanders despatches, details about the regiments and battalions, trench maps, list of prisoner of war camps and much more information. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Wartime Memories Project - World War One |
Link: | https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/ |
Description: | Wartime Memories Project - World War One |
Extra Info: | The aim of this website is to share stories, photographs and documents relating to the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Including location of regiments and battalions, names of those serving and more. More information being added frequently. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Wiltshire WW1 Hospital Records |
Link: | Wiltshire WW1 Hospital Records by Find My Past |
Description: | Wiltshire WW1 Hospital Records by Find My Past |
Extra Info: | Search records of British and ANZAC service personnel for three hospitals in the Salisbury area from 1914-1919 and Salisbury Infirmary up to 1936. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | World War One - Photographs and Pictures |
Link: | https://www.ww1photos.com/ |
Description: | World War One - Photographs and Pictures |
Extra Info: | Includes postcards of WWI, many photographs of the trenches, a special gallery of Gallipoli photographs, animals in war and more. Many free photos, others may be purchased. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Discharge / Pension Records, Officers' Records, Service Records, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Academy / Training / Cadets, Muster / Militia Rolls, Medals / Awards, Uniforms / Badges, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Newspapers, Maps, Information, Other |
Title: | Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia |
Link: | http://en.wikipedia.org/ |
Description: | Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia |
Extra Info: | Comprehensive general reference for most military topics. Use its search box to find your areas of interest. |