First Eastern General Hospital Trinity College Cambridge

Postcards and photos of the RAMC Territorial Force 1st Eastern General Hospital in 1914 at Trinity College in Cambridge

First Eastern General Hospital was a Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force established in 1908.


Photos courtesy of Alexandra Edwards (nee Rainey).
It reads:

RAMC(T) 1st Eastern General Hospital 1914 Trinity College, Cambridge.





The postcard reads:

First Eastern General Hospital Cambridge Interior of a ward.

This postcard shows the patients in their hospital blues as well as members of the Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve). They were officially sold in the hospital and village and others depicted patients and nurses in the hospital gardens.



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The Drummer Boy continues the adventures of QARANC nurse, Scott Grey, who has the special gift of seeing military ghosts. In this novel he is haunted by the ghost of a Gordon Highlander Drummer Boy from the Battle of Waterloo. It is based on the legends of the Tidworth Military Hospital Drummer Boy.


Chapters take place in modern day Aberdeen, at the Noose & Monkey bar and restaurant as well as His Majesty’s Theatre and Garthdee. Other scenes take place at Tidworth and during the Napoleonic War where I describe battlefield medical care of this era.


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The area that the World War One tented hospital was set up is now the University Library. As WWI progressed wooden huts were built on the cricket field to form a larger hospital. The first patients were admitted on the 17 October 1914 and over 70,000 casualties were treated. By 1915 there were over 1500 beds.

There is a video and more information at www.cam.ac.uk

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Official QARANC webpage.

QA Association website.

In The Company of Nurses Book.


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