Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/20
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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

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

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009