Great War Centenary
Contents
- Introduction
- History
- Military
- Military Depots
- Military Headquarters
- Coastal Defences
- Anti-aircraft Batteries
- Pillboxes
- Drill Halls
- Training Areas and Camps
- Rifle Ranges
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Internment Camps
- Sound Mirrors
- Airship Bases
- Airfields
- Seaplane Bases
- Naval Establishments
- Naval Vessels
- Caring for Casualties
- Military Hospitals
- Royal Naval Hospitals
- Army Hospitals
- Royal Air Force Hospitals
- Territorial Force Hospitals
- Southern General Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Eastern General Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Scottish General Hospitals
- London General Hospitals
- Canadian Convalescent Hospital
- New Zealand General Hospital No 1
- War Hospitals
- Voluntary Support
- Auxiliary Hospitals
- War Hospital Supply Depots
- Supporting the War Effort
- Manufacturing
- Munitions
- National Munitions Factories
- Airships and Aircraft
- Shipyards
- Mining
- North Wales Manganese Mines
- State Management Scheme
- Hostilities and incidents on British soil
- Aerial
- Naval
- Army
- Easter Rising
- Memorials
- National Memorials
- National Memorial Arboretum
- Naval Memorials
- Regimental and Battalion Memorials
- Divisional Memorials
- War Memorials
- Battlefield Crosses
- Animals in War
- Drinking Troughs
- Memorial Benches
- Poppies
- Ulster Murals
- Memorial Hospitals
- Memorial Halls
- Memorial Parks and Gardens
- Memorial Clock Towers
- Memorial Arches
- Memorial Windows
- Thankful Villages
- Statues
- Centenary Memorials
- War Cemeteries
- Centenary Commemorations
- Events
- Reconstructions
- Commemorative Installations
- Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
- Weeping Window
- Wave
- Miscellany
- Tanks, trains, guns, shells and mines
- Songs and Entertainment
- Private air raid shelter
- Belgian Refugees
- Refugee billets
- Token of thanks and memorials
- Other
- War Poetry and Authors
- Hedd Wyn
- Francis Ledwidge
- Wilfred Owen
- Rupert Brooke
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Charles Sorley
- Edward Thomas
- Laurence Binyon
- JRR Tolkien
- Links
Voluntary Support
Auxiliary Hospitals
Over 3000 hospitals were established under the auspices of the Joint War Committee of the Red Cross and Order of St John's to take convalescing soldiers from the military hospitals. Staffing of these was mainly voluntary with support from the local communities to raise additional funding.
Approximately 1500 of the buildings used are known to survive ranging from stately homes, civic and public halls, vicarages and private houses. The article records over 650 of these.
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War Hospital Supply Depots
In the first year of the war supplies of bandages and other supplies were made or collected by a wide range of groups. In Devon the Ladies Linen Leagues associated with hospitals were in the forefront. Within a month of the declaration of war the Lady Mayoress of Exeter and her working party had supplied nearly 5000 items to the Linen League for Belgian refugees and soldiers at the front. The working party moved from the Guildhall to the vacant shop premises of the Domestic Bazaar Company next door.
With growing numbers of casualties the Central Work Rooms were established in 1915 in the Royal Academy's Burlington House in Piccadilly to co-ordinate the efforts of volunteer groups.
Work Parties gathered in rectories, public buildings and private houses to hand make bedclothes, gowns, nightshirts and bandages for hospitals. More than 2700 were registered with the Red Cross and Order of St John.
The War Hospital Supply Depot at 8 The Causeway in Horsham operated from 1915 to 1918 with volunteers able to work their own hours up to six hours per day and six days per week producing 335,169 articles including bandages, surgeons gowns, swabs, pneumonia jackets and pyjamas. Money was raised through appeals, exhibitions and fetes.
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