Hospital Photos.

Photos of my Granddad when he was recovering from his wound.

John seated far left.

John second from right

John on the left, seated on bed,

My Granddad returns to England 1st May 1917.

A cross channel Hospital Ship - the St David.

On the cross channel Hospital Ship going home, there was a real fear of submarine attack.  They had a drill in the event of an attack.  During the drill the Doctor said to Jack, ‘Could you walk to that door?’ Jack replied, ‘I would crawl if I had to’.

He returned to England on May 1^st 1917 [22 days after he had been wounded] and was sent to a hospital in Plymouth (4^th Southern T.F. General Hospital - 193 beds for Officers and 1,029 for OR’s).  Before the war this was the Salisbury Road School, it then became a Territorial Force Hospital.

Plymouth Hospital.

1/5/17 is recorded on his medal roll saying that was the date he left the war zone.

He did not go to any other theatre of war after that, all his service was done at ‘Home’.

He was transferred to the RDC at some time after it was formed in August 1917.  So between May 1917 and August, he was recovering from his wound and must have spent some time in the Labour Corps [or just have been assigned to it], in this country.

Salisbury Road Junior School in 2012. Opened in 1903.