Watercolour showing a ship on water, the word Remembrance diagonally across the middle and a leaf and flowers in the bottom left corner

Painted by Pte M Keenan While recovering From wounds Received in action At Whitchurch War Hospital In Cardiff

Newspaper clipping and photograph of Michael Keenan

Day 6 @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30
#SomethingSmall

Sharing this beautiful painting by Private Michael Keenan, treated at the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital in 1916
Thank you Pat for sharing the painting & Jan for the research

#militaryhospital
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital
#watercolour

First World War postcard showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

First World War postcard showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

Photo showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

The front cover of the Staff Handbook showing the front entrance and water tower on the left hand side

Day 2 @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 #Archif30
the theme is #ArchiveBuilding #AdeiladArchif

Here is the beautiful building
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social in better days #WW1 #Firstworldwar

#militaryhospital
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital
#whitchurchhospital

Black and white postcard showing the closed front gates of the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital. The front lodge can be seen behind the gates with three people, one inside and two outside the doorway. Red poppy image on the top right hand side of the photo

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

#remembrance
#militaryhospital

Postcard showing black and white image of the water tower to the left and the main hospital entrance in the middle. Road on the right hand side of the photo.y

Some may not be aware of the military history associated with Whitchurch Hospital.

During the First World War, the hospital was renamed The Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital and officially opened on the 9th of June 1915

#militaryhospital
#firstworldwar
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital

Horatio Elis Evans seated outdoors in the grounds of the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital wearing his medal. Dressed in hospital blues and slippers.

107 yrs ago Horatio Ellis Evans killed in Salonika, Greece. He was treated at the Hospital in 1916 & awarded the Military Medal.
On recovering, re-posted overseas & killed in action - 17th September 1918

Thank you Jan for the research

#firstworldwar
#WeWillNeverForget
#militaryhospital

come on… he’s #toxic & #WalterReed #MilitaryHospital tired of pasting him together to fuck everybody over

just let him go, who’d know if they just laid off his meds, & let him keel over?

they don’t have to risk themselves going full #RasputinRemovalServices

#ilDouchey has fuck’d everybody
#BRICS wants #obedient squishy #Vance, now that #Democracy, #HumanRights, #Journalism & #RuleOfLaw is fucked

#WalterReed 💊 #MilitaryHospital keeps #ElPresidente in his puffy pins

Security Flaws in Army Hospital System Used by Trump Compromise Patient Data A recently discovered vulnerability in the health records system used by former President Donald Trump at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has exposed sensitive patient data.

Security Flaws in Army Hospital System Used by Trump Compromise Patient Data killbait.com/en/security-... #politics #healthrecords #militaryhospital

Selection of various black and white postcards of the Cardiff City Mental Hospital which became the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital

Day 29 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

#ArchiveCollection

One collection is a few #postcards

#WelshMetroplitanWarHospital
#CardiffCityMentalHospital
#FWW
#militaryhospital
#WilliamDean

Wooden Framed certificate for services during the First World War

Day 26 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

#ArchiveObject

A lovely framed certificate presented to the hospital for its service during the First World War

#WW1
#FWW
#militaryhospital
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital
#shellshock
#orthopaediccentre
#ColGoodall
#MatronRaynes

Post Office Telegram from 25th August 1939

Post Office Telegram from 1st September 1939

Day 14 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

#UnusualArchives

These telegrams from 1939 are unusual we think… preparing for casualties

#emergencyhospital
#standby
#clearhospital
#WW2
#militaryhospital
#postoffice
#telegram

Watercolour painting showing a sailing boat and a leaf

Painted by Pte M Keenan while recovering from wounds received in action at Whitchurch War Hospital in Cardiff

A photo and a newspaper clipping

A post card showing ward Male (M) 2 at the Military Hospital

Happy #StPatricksDay to all our Irish friends
We would like to share this beautiful painting by Private Michael Keenan while treated at the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital in 1916

Thank you to Pat for sharing the painting & Jan for researching Michael’s story

#militaryhospital
#FirstWorldWar

Large group of soldiers and staff (nursing and medical staff) with Christmas decorations above and beds in the front of the photo.

Last day of the #ArchiveAdventCalendar

#MerryChristmas  

Ending with a favourite Christmas postcard from the First World War

Thank you for all your support, we have really enjoyed joining in

#EYAFestive
#hospitalChristmas
#HistNursing
#militaryhospital
#matronraynes

@arascot.bsky.social

Black of white photo of Horatio Ellis Evans seated in the grounds of Whitchurch hospital when it was a military hospital during the First World War. Horatio is wearing slippers and his hospital uniform, tree in the background

Postcard of ward Male 2 during the First World War. There is a group of people standing under the veranda. The hospital water tower can be seen in the background

A short biography of Horatio Ellis Evans together with four photos - smaller one of him sitting in the hospital grounds and three photos of medals he was awarded

#ArchiveAdventCalendar

#Star

Horatio Ellis Evans awarded the Star medal
Photo taken in 1916 when awarded the Military Medal.
On recovering, re-posted overseas and killed in action on the 17th September 1918
🙏🏻 to Jan for researching

#WeWillNeverForget
#militaryhospital

@arascot.bsky.social

Newspaper article describing one occasion at the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital when the wounded heroes were entertained

Newspaper article describing one occasion at the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital when the wounded heroes were entertained and who donated cigarettes

A postcard with the hospital chapel in the background, trees and two men wearing First World War military uniforms

A postcard of the hospital showing the imposing front entrance and water tower on the left

Day 2 #ExploreYourArchive

#EYAHeroes

“Wounded Heroes entertained”

Monmouth Guardian and Bargoed and Caerphilly Observer
1 December 1916
(Welsh Newspapers online)

📷 two postcards from the archive

#eyafocusweek
#archives
#Firstworldwar
#militaryhospital