Medical

[jessienicolson]

 I had a great uncle, from Peterhead, who was in the Naval Reserve during WW1 and was stationed on HMS Thalia an amunitions ship, stationed at North Scotland somewhere.  He died in 1919 in a naval hospital in  England, cause of death, basal pneumonia, enteric. 
On his marine death certificate which was a separate, one, it just states ~"disease"!
Has anyone come across this before. And why would he be in England and not a hospital in Scotland.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Jebber]

HMS Thalia was a shore base in Cromarty, I suggest your best bet would be to look for his records in the Archives.

[jessienicolson]

I had thought that maybe by working on a ship storing ammunitions, that might have lead to his death. On the other hand I was thinking along the lines of the epidemic of flu which swept through the country when the troops returned home.

[Forfarian]

If he died of basal penumonia then flu is a more likely cause than an explosion.

No idea why he would have been transferred to a hospital in England rather than treated closer to home.

[jessienicolson]

Yes, I was a bit puzzled.

[Forfarian]

Can you access the archives of the hospital where he died? They may already be available for research, but if there is a 100-year closure they should become available next year or the year after.

[jessienicolson]

I will give it

[jessienicolson]

I will give it a go

[Flattybasher9]

This was an actual ship. After the war ended, it presumably would have been sailed South where it was sold/scrapped in 1920.

https://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm

https://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/juno.htm

Malky