Great War>Hospitals
|
|
- No. 8 Stationary Hospital during the Great War -
Great War>Hospitals
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Site Home
Help & FAQs
Features
Submissions
Information
Advertisements
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
No. 8 Stationary Hospital
No. 8 Stationary Hospital opened at Wimereux in March 1915 and remained there throughout the Great War.
19th Feb 1916 Nurses RequiredIf you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
We are currently building a database of patients treated in this hospital, if you know of anyone who was treated here, please enter their details via this form
Patient Reports.
(This section is under construction)No information has been added for this hospital, please check back later.
Those known to have worked or been treated at
No. 8 Stationary Hospital
during the Great War 1914-1918.
All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List
Records of No. 8 Stationary Hospital from other sources.
- The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
- 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.
Please see Family History FAQ's
Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.
Can you help?
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Announcements
- 22nd April 2024
Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263973 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question.
If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page.
Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
Want to know more about No. 8 Stationary Hospital?
There are:1 items tagged No. 8 Stationary Hospital available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
Gnr. William Edward Baxter 128th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Bill Baxter enlisted on the 9th of December 1915. He was immediately transferred to the Army Reserve. He rejoined the colours on the 1st of June 1916 and was posted to the depot as a gunner. He was posted 20 days later to an anti-aircraft depot.On 10th of October 1916 he became part of the British Expeditionary Force in France, he was with the 128th Heavy Battery Unit. In early January 1917, he was injured, we believe when working as a messenger. He was admitted to No.8 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux on 7th of January 1917 with a Gun Shot Wound to his right arm, right leg and left leg, which was classified as severe. He was transported home on H.S. Jan Breydel on 20th of January 1917 and admitted to the Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham. When he was being transported to this hospital his train went through Chelsea and he was thought to be delirious when he asked to be let off the train. Bill had his left leg amputated and was eventually was discharged on 15th of February 1918
Amanda Baxter
Pte. James Bentham 21st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
James Bentham served with the 21st (Wool Textile Pioneers) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. He was injured in October 1917 from gun shot wounds and was sent to the 8th Stationary Hospital at Wimereux.Susan McConkey
Pte. Alfred Miller Connovy Alderton C Coy. 36th Btn.
Alfred Alderton was a 23 year old carriage painter from Newcastle NSW. He saw action at with C Company 36th Battalion and was wounded in the left knee at the Battle of Messines on 11th June 1917.
Recomended Reading.
Available at discounted prices.
Links
Suggest a link
|
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small
to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites. |
