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I’d only been at Netley a short while when, along with a large number of other ranks, I found myself on the station platform at 1.00 am helping to unload an ambulance train full of patients from ...
During World War One, four-fifths of men who had entered hospital suffering shell shock were never able to return to military duty: it was imperative that such high levels of 'permanent ...
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These rare images capture the delight of British soldiers returning home from World War I for a few days away from the unforgiving horrors of the battlefield. The black-and-white photographs show ...
It may have been nestled on the south coast of England but the so-called 'Welsh hospital' was responsible for treating thousands of soldiers wounded in World War One. The generosity of people from ...
It was the condition that left World War One troops blind, deaf, mute and paralysed after the trauma of the trenches. But soldiers were able to find some solace from shell shock at Whitchurch ...
The Big Eat, held at Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley, drew more than 40,000 visitors who sampled a variety of street food.
The pier at Netley Hospital, which was often the first sight that greeted wounded soldier as they were landed from the battlefields of Europe for treatment at the Hospital.
Enlisted age 19, shot though both thighs in 1917, treated along with hundreds of others at Netley Hospital and released with a gammy leg and foot with just a rough suit into a world without work ...
Netley Hospital, founded in 1856 in response to the Crimean War, was England's largest building and, several sources suggest, the world's longest at the time of its completion.
On the 17th July 1943 I had to report to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, near Southampton. It was an old Victorian hospital built during the Crimean War.