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23 November 1917 : Pte Joseph Hoole

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His parents were Edward and Mary Ann (neé Hodson).  At the 1891 Census, age 2, Joseph ('Jos') lived at home (44 Bow Lane, Preston) with his parents, older brother Frederick and a lodger (his mother's brother). Both parents worked in a local cotton mill.  Joseph's father died in April 1897 when Joseph was still only five years old.  Fred joined...

050: September 1997

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051: January 1998

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The Armistice and Afterwards: Extracts from the Diaries of QMS Edgar Wignall RAMC

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The Armistice and Afterwards: Extracts from the Diaries of QMS Edgar Wignall RAMC by Clive R Harrison (This article first appeared in Stand To! No.61 April 2001 pp25-30 - including a two page Appendix giving details of the medical and ambulance equipment carried by his unit). On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918...

23 March 1918: 2nd Lieut. Norman Stanford Agate

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His parents were Alfred (a grocer and wine/ale merchant) and Annie Letitia (née White). Age 6 at the 1901 Census, Norman was living at home (5 Tower Street, Warblington) with his parents and older brother Charlton, as well as widow Helen Spencer and her son Thomas and servants Kate and Nell.  He attended Holmsdale House School, Worthing and at...

Talbot House needs your help

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Due to open on Thursday, 16 April, but unable to open its ambitious new permanent exhibition due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 lockdown Talbot House is now eager to raise funds to get through this difficult period. Investment over winter into a new permanent exhibition was funded on the expectation of a healthy cash flow for the opening months of...

ONLINE: Canadian Nurses on the Western Front: From Passchendaele to Peace with Andrea McKenzie

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The presentation will be live and online. At 3:50 a.m. on 31 July 1917, the Allies attacked across an eleven mile front in the Ypres sector, the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres. On 1 August nurses and other medical staff at Canadian Casualty Clearing Station No. 2 battled to care for the more than 2,000 wounded soldiers who swamped the 30...

ONLINE: 'Bluebirds: Three Canadian Great War Nurses' by Andrea McKenzie

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Caption: The staff of CCS No. 2, Poperinge Live zoom from Toronto, Canada About this talk: Three Montreal nursing sisters - Clare Gass, Harriet Drake and Mildred Forbes - ran Casualty Clearing Station No. 2 in Poperinge during the most violent and most crucial months on the Ypres sector in 1917-18. Together they endured bombing raids, shellfire,...

Mud, Blood and Bandages: The RAMC on the Western Front by Andy Robertshaw

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Mud, Blood and Bandages: The RAMC on the Western Front by Andy Robertshaw. Andy's presentation explores the multiple roles of the medical services in preventing disease and dealing with the sick and wounded on the front line.  How did the system of medical evacuation take place? Who was responsible for treatment at each stage in this process? Ho...