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

A diagram showing the Restoration of Servicemen in South Wales. The Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital is top middle and bottom middle

Front cover of a book: the prince and the pioneers by Robert Phelps. Left is a drawing of the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital.

Here is a diagram of how the the local military hospitals dealt with various casualties arriving in Cardiff. Image is from the Prince and the Pioneers by Robert Phelps

#Firstworldwar
#orthopaediccasualties
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital

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

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

First part of the newspaper clipping from the Western Mail

Full newspaper article from the Western Mail

Large group photo of soldiers in their hospital uniforms and others in their khaki uniforms. Seated in the middle of the photos is Matron Florence Raynes with other unknown nursing staff. Christmas decorations hanging from the ceiling, a wreath on the left hand side window. Some hospital beds on both sides of the postcard

Day 13 already!!

#ArchiveAdventCalendar

#ChristmasCracker

“The Giant Cracker”
Western Mail, Monday December 27. 1915.

No photo but this is a cracker of a post card of those who may well have been in the actual “Giant Cracker”

#WelshMetropolitanWarHospital
#FWW
#HistNursing
#EYAFestive