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1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool
1st Western General Hospital was located in Fazakerley Hospital in Liverpool with the wounded arriving by train to Fazakerley Station. Beds for 153 officers and 4204 other ranks were provided, with additional beds under the command of the hospital provided at Auxiliary Hospitals in the surrounding area. Fazakerley became a specialist centre for the surgical treatment of injuries to the jaw and fractures of the thigh. Today the site is the University Hospital Aintree.
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7th Oct 1919 Liverpool's Medical FacilitiesIf you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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Those known to have worked or been treated at
1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool
during the Great War 1914-1918.
- Anderson Carl Hugo. Pte.
- Hibbett Arthur Hubert. Pte.
- Lilley Ernest. Gnr. (d.10th August 1916)
- Moul George Herbert. Pte. (d.29th Sep 1917)
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There are:2 items tagged 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
Pte. George Herbert Moul 1/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.29th Sep 1917)
George Moul was wounded in Flanders and was taken to the 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool where he died of his wounds on 29th of September 1917.John Sillitto
Gnr. Ernest Lilley Royal Garrison Artillery (d.10th August 1916)
I came across the grave of Ernest Lilley in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, cemetery whilst researching Military burials in our local cemetery. The headstone reads:- In loving memory of Gunner Ernest Lilley, son of Enoch and Mary Ann Lilley, who died Aug 16 1916 in 1st. Military Hospital Fazakerley, Liverpool aged 21 years. Rest after weariness, peace after pain.Roy Plumb
Pte. Arthur Hubert "Bertie" Hibbett 1/5th Btn. 'A' Coy, No 2 Platoon South Staffordshire Regiment
Elizabeth F. Hibbett Webb
Pte. Carl Hugo Anderson 33rd Btn.
Carl Anderson was born in Horrkoping Sweden, he was 36 years old, married and working as a fireman in Sydney when he enlisted in the AIF in November 1916. He is described as being 5'6" tall with brown hair and brown eyes, he had a tattoo of a lady on his left forearm and a vase of flowers on his right.Carl arrived in England at the end of January 1917 and undertook training at Sutton Mandeville and Larkhill before proceeding to France on the 25th June 1917. He joined the 33rd Battalion on the 20th July 1917. After three months in action he was admitted to hospital suffering from Trench foot and was transferred to England for treatment at the 1st Western General Hospital. Carl returned to the front on 16th March 1918 and was Killed in Action on the 30th near Fouilloy, he now lies in the Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery.
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