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General => Armed Forces => Armed Forces Resources => Topic started by: sway on Sunday 03 November 19 01:07 GMT (UK)
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I would like to know about my great grandfather i found his nz war record but it shows nothing of his being injured and being in a hospital in the uk, i know this cause this is where he met my great grandmother who was a nurse we are trying to find out which hospital he went to.
His Name James Anderson
service number: 58719
years served 1917 - 1919
New Zealand Expeditionary Forces
Rifleman
Thankyou
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on Image 1 of the document available at Archway I am sure it says
Taken on str[etcher] from hosp[ital] Rugeley 11.2.18
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image 4 of same document has sickness and wounds.
Some other hospitals here? not sure.
Hopefully someone who understands these comes along and can read for you.
I am reasonably sure line 2 says Gun Shot Wound (GSW)
am thinking you perhaps don't have this full record which you can download for free
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22270124&digital=yes
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Images 11 and 12 give hospital admissions. 'No. 1 NZ Gen. Hsp. B'hurst' is Brockenhurst. 'NZ Con. Hosp. H'church' is Hornchurch.
Debra :)
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https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/how-to-research-a-soldier/hospital-admissions-and-discharge-records/
may or may not be useful
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G.H. Rouen .... general hospital in Rouen, France ... on that date in 1918...
Ldn .... London
Adm or similar ... Admitted to .... (name of or abbreviation for a hospital, adission as a patient)
RTNZ is return to New Zealand
Forces War Records will not have the depth of detail that Mckha489 has found for you in those free to downliad NZ files.
Yes GSW is GunShot Wound. SGSW is servere GSW ... plenty of NZ regulars on NZ board helped encourage NZ archives to digitise those WWI service records, :) likely they will help decipher the handwriting abbreviations. Perhaps the thread could include a link on the NZ board?
JM
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seems Rugeley, Cannock Chase (which is also on that image) and Brocton are parts of a whole
http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/chasecamps/construct.htm
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The later admissions in December 1918 were to the hospital at Codford, Wiltshire (C'ford).
https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27202/codford-hospital-england
Just search the NZ library website for the words Brockenhurst hospital and Hornchurch hospital and you will see lots of photos.
https://natlib.govt.nz/
Debra :)
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Dcipher the handwriting abbreviations. Perhaps the thread could include a link on the NZ board?
JM
This might help a bit, First World War glossary and abbreviations.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ww1-abbreviations-acronymns
Have sent a PM to NZ moderator to see if it can be added to the Military Links (the abbreviations I mean)
Cheers
KHP
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G.H. Rouen .... general hospital in Rouen, France ... on that date in 1918...
Ldn .... London
Adm or similar ... Admitted to .... (name of or abbreviation for a hospital, adission as a patient)
RTNZ is return to New Zealand
Forces War Records will not have the depth of detail that Mckha489 has found for you in those free to downliad NZ files.
Yes GSW is GunShot Wound. SGSW is servere GSW ... plenty of NZ regulars on NZ board helped encourage NZ archives to digitise those WWI service records, :) likely they will help decipher the handwriting abbreviations. Perhaps the thread could include a link on the NZ board?
JM
There are a number of threads mentioning Forces War Records, few, or none of which are very favourable. They charge to view records which are freely available elsewhere.
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So I got more info from older family members they said that my great grandmother still lived at home when she was working at the hospital the family home was at roybridge so it would have been the closest hospital to there.
Thankyou everyone who has posted
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Would that be Roybridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland?
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Yes
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So, nowhere close to any of the hospitals mentioned? ;D
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They got engaged over there but her father was against her leaving so a bother got her plus two sisters out of country