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St Thomas' Hospital is located at Stangate in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is directly across the river Thames from the Palace of Westminster on a plot of land largely reclaimed from the river during construction of the Albert Embankment in the late 1860s. It was at St Thomas's that Florence Nightingale founded the first professional school of nursing; it was one of the first hospitals to adopt the pavilion principle - popularised by Florence Nightingale in her Notes on Hospitals - by having six separate ward buildings linked by low corridors. Territorial Force General Hospitals were often based at existing hospitals, such as St Thomas's, for the duration of the war. St Thomas's, specifically, had 94 Officer beds and 568 Other Ranks beds.
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List of those who served at the 5th London General Hospital, St Thomas's during The Great War
List of those who were treated at the 5th London General Hospital, St Thomas's during The Great War
- Lt. Albert Bissett Amess MC. 33rd Btn.
- Pte. George Thomas 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read his Story.
Pte. George Thomas 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
George Thomas was my grandfather he was born in Wednesfield, Staffordshire, in 1895. The family moved to Enfield were his father had a boot makers shop, they lived in Ordnance Road and Alma Road.
George served with the 23rd Middlesex Battalion in France and also in Italy on the Piave front. From information that I have gathered and from personal accounts of talking with him, he told me that he served at Messines, Hooge, Kemmel and Boesinghe amongst others places. He was wounded twice, on the first occasion a steel plate was fitted in his kneecap, I recall seeing the bullet entrance scars on his leg, this was a Blighty wound and I believe he returned to Saint Thomas's Hospital in London to recuperate, later returning to the Western Front. I do not know the exact place were he was wounded but wish I could find out this information and any other that would be relevant to his service records or movements.
The photograph above is of George Thomas seated, and standing beside him, his friend William Godfrey g/11588 23rd Middlesex, whom I believe died age 26 on the 10th August 1917 and is recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial. My grandfather died in 1983.
Certificate of service and his Silver War Badge.
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