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Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital, Harrogate
Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital in Harrogate was located in a house lent and fully equipped by Mr. and Mrs. Lund of Becca Hall, Aberford, who bore all expenses not covered by the 2/- Army grant, with the exception of a few gifts for endowed beds. The hospital was staffed by the West Riding 86, 94 and 118 VADs with Mrs Lund acting as Head of the Hospital. The hospital opened on the 9th of October 1914 providing 15 beds, which was later increased to 30. By the time the hospital closed on the 11th of April 1919, 1002 patients had been treated.If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital, Harrogate
during the Great War 1914-1918.
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Gnr. John William Flanders Royal Field Artillery
John Flanders, known as Will was my Grandfather, and told stories of him being wounded in the trenches when a German shrapnel shell landed in their gun pit. Three of his mates where killed and two wounded. He was in such a bad state that he was moved to be buried, but when two men from the burial detail picked him up to throw him into the pit, he groaned, so they got him to the hospital tent and the rest is history. He was then in hospitals at Swanage and Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital, Harrogate near Leeds.The two men who saved him used to visit him after the war and up to about the 1950s: he outlived them both. He came home and was a soft furnishing buyer for Hill Carters department store in West Hartlepool then in WW2 he worked as a wage clerk in I C I Billingham until he retired in the 1950s. He married Violet Ann Symons and had two daughters, Clara Grace and Winifred Patrica. I was recently lent some old photos to scan into my computer from a cousin and found a newspaper article about his time at Beaulieu hospital, and a photo of him with others and nurses on a post card.
The newspaper clipping reads, Gunner Flanders of the Light Field Artillery who has been out in Flanders, is in the Beaulieu Hosital recovering from the effects of twenty wounds. They had been subjected to a heavy bombardment by the German artillery. This went on for two hours, when a shrapnel shell burst near to Flanders and others. The shell practically fell at their feet. Three were killed and two wounded, Flanders got twenty pieces of shell in various parts of his body. Several of these have been taken out, other pieces have worked out, whilst he still has small pieces remaining. He is getting on nicely.
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Pte. Bertram Francis Nason 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Bertram Nason served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was the son of Francis Nason and Esther (nee Adams) of Pillerton Priors and Pillerton Hersey. At the time of Bertram's birth, his father was working on the Chastleton Estate, where he became farm bailiff. Bertram was born at Brookend Farm, Chastleton. In 1901, when he was 16, Bertram was living with his parents at 15 Ryland Street, Stratford and he was a telegraph messenger. His older sister had died aged 11 and is buried in the churchyard at Chastleton. He had an older brother who had moved away and married in Baldock that same year. By 1906, Bertram was a fully fledged postman, as shown in the appointments books, and a year later, he had transferred to Leamington. His patch in the Stratford area was very rural and he would cycle miles, including delivering to the Alscot Estate. He remembers being invited to the staff Christmas parties there. Soon after becoming a postman, he met and fell in love with the head waitress, Lizzie Melville, at the Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford. They were married in Stratford Parish Church on 11 November 1911. The hotel presented them with a silver tea service. The couple lived at 9 Newbold Place, Leamington Spa.Bertram remained a postman until he enlisted with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 8th of December 1915. He served at Passchendaele. By acquiring the war diaries for the battalion and visiting the museum at Passchendaele, we have discovered that he was gassed at Hill 60. This was an important strategic point for undermining. We have a telegram sent to his wife to inform her that on a certain date in 1917, he was injured and sent to the military hospital at Etaples, on the coast of France. This would have been a hospital largely under canvas. From there he was sent to the Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital in Harrogate, where he remained, convalescing, for some months. During his convalescence, his wife Lizzie upped sticks and moved to Yorkshire with the dog to be near him. We have a photo of Bertram at Harrogate, the middle man in the front row with the dog on his knee. The suits would have been a statutory blue. In January 1919 he was discharged on the ground of sickness.
Bertram and Lizzie continued to live in Leamington and had one daughter. After he was widowed in 1953, he lived alone in Leamington. When he was older, he moved to live with his daughter and her husband and their two children in Radway. He died in 1967, having lived to the age of 82 despite the damage he suffered at Passchendaele. His two grandchildren and their partners still live locally.
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