WW1 injuries - Which Hospitals ?

[lyndahirst_1]

Hi there

My great uncle, William John Beard, was injured while at the Front and was sent to hospital for treatment.

I "think" the first hospital mentioned is the Royal Herbert at Woolwich but am totally stumped on the 2nd one so wondering if anyone is able to advise what it might be? 

Also happy to stand corrected if I've mis-interpreted the first one :-)

I thought I'd ask here before heading over to the handwriting forum as it is of a military nature and thought it likely that someone on this board might know the answer.

Thanks
Lynda

[jaybelnz]

Looks like Blankerton to me!

[medpat]

Hankerton perhaps, it's a village in Wiltshire

[BumbleB]

I think it is Tankerton in Kent 

[Wiggy]

Tanker ton is what I read, too . . .  without knowing any places.

The first names looks more like Wollich or Wollish to me - goodness knows if there is such a place.

Wiggy

[nanny jan]

This site might help:

http://www.ezitis.myzen.co.uk/briefhistoryauxhosps.html

Merstham and Royal Herbert are in the list.

[MaxD]

The second one is almost certainly Military Convalescent Hospital Crownhill (Plymouth).  Whatever the first name is may be the ward name, probably can be ignored!

The RH at Woolwich is a good spot for the first but there was also a VAD Hospital at Merstham (as Nanny Jan notes).

It was often the case that men went to a convalescent hospital after treatment.

The first names Woolwich and (whatever) may well have been the places to which he was posted at the time of treatment?  Added - Tamerton is part of Plymouth just next door to Crownhill, given his rendering of Woolwich, he may well have not been sure of the name in Plymouth.

Has his service record survived?
MaxD

[lyndahirst_1]

Thanks to all for the input.

@Max - only his pension records - they contain the snippet I pasted above. I've attached another page of the reords in case that throws any further light on anything.

He was shot through the chest and ribs the first stint and lost a finger due to shrapnel, in the 2nd stint. A newspaper article indicates he spent 10 weeks recovering from the first injury.

1st Feb 1919 he was Gazetted for conspicuous gallantry at Henin Hill and awarded the Military Cross.

[MaxD]

That all adds up.  The 1. and 2. belong to the two major hospital sessions which he lists in the box above.
He went to France on 10 July 1915 with his first unit, 7 Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (from his medal roll entry) and was presumably among the 12 officers and 246 men wounded during the fighting at Loos on 25/26 September. This would be where the first hospital/hospitals come into play.
After that he is back in the UK until July 1918.  Then back to France on 27 July 1918 where he is wounded a month later in the Henin Hill action for which he was decorated and for which he is treated first at Etaples and then invalided back to UK.

MaxD