EastMarple1 says:
This is now the main hallway in today's hotel. with reception on the left. The paintings that appear to be in the panels at first floor level are no longer there. They are just plain wood nowadays. When my friends were married there in 2012 all the guests assembled in the area where the soldiers are while the photographer took their pictures while looking down over the first floor balcony.
EastMarple1 says:
I believe that this photograph and the one above are the same room, which was originally constructed as a bowling alley for Sir Mortimer Singer in 1914. On the left hand side is the rest of the house while the arched windows on the right overlook a sunken courtyard garden which still exists.
EastMarple1 says:
In July 1916 there were 92 patients and 1,600 had passed through, with no deaths. (Faringdon Advertiser 8 July 1916)
In Dec 1917 it was said that at any time there were 200 patients in the hospital and 3,300 had passed through. (Reading Mercury 29 Dec 1917)
Soldiers known to have been here during WWI include
Pte Thomas Matthews 2nd East Lancs (Walsall Advertiser 27 Feb 1915)
J. Miller 13th Canadians (Southern Reporter 4 Jan 1917)
Sgt M T McNally, 1st Connaught Rangers (Faringdon Advertiser 23 Jan 1915)
Newspaper references from www.findmypast.co.uk
Staff (Red Cross)
Source: www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origi...
Miss Gertrude Allen, nurse (1914)
Miss Lilian Margaret Austin assistant quartermaster and secretary (1917-19)
Mr Walter Austin, carpenter (1914-1919)
Mrs Kitty Bailey, quartermaster secretary (1914-1916)
Mr John Baron, valet orderly, (1917-1919)
Mr William Berryman, kitchen porter (1914-1919)
Miss Vera E. Blott, nurse (1918)
Miss Adeline Bradfield, nurse (1916-1917)
W.G. Brinton, orderly (1916-1917)
Miss Ann Clyde Clark, nurse (1915-1919)
Miss Peggy Clark, nurse (1915-1917)
Miss Mina L. Cohen, assistant secretary (1916-1917)
Miss Elsie M. Cullen, nurse (1916)
Mr George A. M. Easwell, orderly (1917)
Mrs Leila Marie Evans, nurse (1915-1919)
Mr Wyndham Evans, masseur and medical electrician (1915-1919)
Dr Herbert Thomas Evans, MA MRCS, 2nd MO. (1914-1919)
Miss Edith Giles, nurse (1918)
Miss Iris Gort, nurse (1915-1916)
Miss Melveina Hall, nurse (1916-1917)
Mr John Arthur Duckworth Harrison, orderly (1918)
Miss Edith Heath, sister, (1917-1918)
Mr William H. Hills, orderly (1918)
Mr Matthew Horwill, orderly (1917-1919)
Miss Mathilde K. Immer, sewing woman (1914-1919)
Mr Dudley H. Inker, orderly (1918)
Miss M. Evelyn James, nurse ( 1916)
Mr George Johnson, head gardener (1916-1919)
Miss Margaret Muriel Johnston, administrator's secretary (1914-1919)
Mr Alfred Jordan, orderly, (1915-1916)
Mr Charles Frank Kelleway, kitchenman (1916-1917)
Mr Percy Kent, boilerman (1915-1916)
Mrs Theo Kent, nurse (1916-1919)
Miss Caroline A. Lawson, sister (circa 1914)
Miss Helen Jessie Lay, nurse in 1914 and promoted to sister in charge of main hospital in Aug 1915.
Miss Annie Miller Lyon ARRC nurse (1915-1916)
Mr Henry Lionel Martin, orderly (1914-1917)
Miss Gladys Mitchell, serving maid (1915-1919)
Miss Clara Morris, nurse (1914-1915)
Miss Catherine Grace Munro, nurse (1914-1915)
Mr Harry Mursell, 2nd chef of main hospital of 118 beds (1916-1919)
Miss Elizabeth Nelson, nurse (1916)
Miss Margaret Nesbit, nurse (1915-1917)
Miss Amy D. Norton, nurse (1918)
Mr John Ogden, 2nd chauffeur (1916-1919)
Mr William George Pelling, boilerman (1917-1919)
Mr Alfred William Rashleigh, head orderly (1914-1918)
Miss Margaret D. Robertson, nurse (1917)
Miss Patricia Lindsey Gordon Rose, quartermaster and secretary (1915-1919)
Mr Thomas Leopold Short, Administrator's orderly and assist. radiographer. Became head orderly. (1914-1919)
Mrs Emily Amelia Shepherd, nurse (1914-1919)
Miss Jessie W. Simon, nurse (1915)
Miss Winifred Clare Sims, nurse (1916-1919)
Miss Margaret Jane Sinclair, nurse (1918-1919)
Sir Adam Mortimer Singer, administrator and commandant, (1914-1919)
Mrs Aline Madeline Singer, matron in chief (1914-1919)
Mr Sydney Percival Spencer, orderly (1914-1919)
Mr Charles Thorn, head chef of Riding School section, 102 beds (1915-1919)
Mr James Tinker, pantry orderly (1917-1919)
Dr William Turner, MVO, MA, MD; PMO (1914-1919)
Mr Philip Wakely, orderly (1914-1919)
Mr William Henry Warren, orderly (19114-1919)
Mr Walter Wheeler, boilerman (1915-1917)
Mr Percival Whitticom, head chef of main hospital of 118 beds. (1914-1919)
Mrs Marjorie Wilson, sister in charge of main hospital of 100 beds (1914-1916)
Mr Edward Woodbridge, pantry orderly (1917-1918)
Mr Augustus Courtney Woodmore, orderly (1915-1919)
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