from home to hospital: life at wrest park, bedfordshire during world war i dr andrew hann properties...
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From home to hospital: Life at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire during World War I
Dr Andrew HannProperties Historians’ Team Leader
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Introducing Wrest Park
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A French Chateau in the Bedfordshire Countryside
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Three Centuries of Garden History
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Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas (1876-1916)
Pickets Post, 1915
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Preparation of the hospital
Nan Herbert
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Beauchamp and Barrie
Convalescent home nurses. Nan Herbert is back row, centre
J. M. Barrie
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Arrival of first convalescents
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Life at ‘Wrest in Beds’
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Conversion to a base hospital
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Arrival of the first patients
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Nan takes over as matron of the hospital
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Nan’s diary provides a vivid record of the hospital at work
• 1st Oct 1915: Early morning round and hard at work at nurses’ register and correspondence. Mr Ewart arrived at 1.54 for eleven operations. I attended four, and did swabs for the appendix case
• 1 May 1916: The Hospital is running more smoothly than ever before, so I can get away more easily. Perfecting details of Terrace shelter and nurse shifts.
• 17th July 1916: Hectic day. Long round in C Ward. At 12.15 emergency operation. Kirkwood took off a man’s arm. Have never seen anything like it – up to the elbow the arm was rotten and blue (gas Gangrene) Cleaned up theatre by 2.30
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Entertainments
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The end of the hospital
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The 1917 sale
• Hospital closed following serious fire in Sept 14th
• Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas killed in action Nov 3rd
• Sister, Nan Herbert puts Wrest up for sale
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Evidence for the hospital