IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/20
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital
Date(s): 1914-1919
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow on the Hill
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This hospital was set up in the early days of the First World War for the reception of wounded soldiers. It was one of the first auxiliary hospitals to be established under the auspices of the Voluntary Aid Detatchment of the British Red Cross. There is a history of the hospital by 'The Commandant' (C J S Thompson): "The Story of 'Holmleigh' Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 1914-1919". Charles John S. Thompson (d.1943) was the first Curator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and the author of numerous works on medical history. See Who Was Who Vol IV for details of his career.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Register of admissions and discharges, 1914-1918; Visitors' Register, 1914-1918; patients' personal narratives, 1915-1917.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Until 2036
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Wellcome Library catalogue online.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These volumes were received from the family of C J S Thompson, and transferred from the Wellcome Institute Library to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2009