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Tweets from the First World War Auxiliary Military Cottage Hospital at Bottoms, Holmfirth in tribute to those that served here 100 years ago. By @scottpalmerx
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Joined June 2013
The Holmfirth Auxiliary Military Hospital at Bottoms 1914-1919
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A few of the ‘Angels of Bottoms’ with a silver trophy in small recognition for the unpaid labour and service Nov 1914-March 1919
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Matron and Commandant of the Holmfirth Auxiliary Hospital (Susanna Margaret) Frances Roberts (RRC) neé Baylee
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Further information is held in archives @TolsonMuseum and celebrated @HuddExposed
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The work at the hospital is featured in this important special edition of Journal of War & Culture Studies curated by @ProfAlisonSFell Volume 11, 2018 - Issue 4: Remembering First World War Nursing: Other Fronts, Other Spaces
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Research from this account informed the article which provides further analysis on the unique role of working class women in the running of the hospital
tandfonline.com
Histories of Voluntary Aid Detachment [VAD] nursing in the First World War have focused almost entirely on nursing in France or in the large military home-based hospitals and has been based on the ...
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The nurses were known locally as the 'Angels of Bottoms' (the location of the Auxiliary Cottage Hospital) The daily history of the war and activities at the hospital were captured 100 years on through this twitter account
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By the closing Ceremony on the 4th of March 1919, nearly 1000 soldiers had been treated within the house and in huts on the adjacent land. These temporary buildings were re-located to form the first hospital in the valley, which is still open as the Holmfirth Memorial Hospital.
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Holmfirth Auxiliary Military Hospital opened on the 12th of November 1914 with six beds. It was almost entirely funded through local donations and staffed by unpaid female volunteer VADs.
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Today marks the 110th anniversary of the opening of #Holmfirth Auxiliary Cottage hospital on Woodhead Road, Bottoms
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List of those entitled to the award of a service badge Holmfirth Express 8/3/1919
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Matron thanked all of the ladies who had sewed, subscribers, and everybody who had helped in any way
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“Holmfirth people could do anything they set out to do in a very short time”
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Sergt. Minnikin for the patients was sorry the Hospital was closing…because of others who still needed treatment
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Major Trotter accepting the rose bowl acknowledged our debt to those men who have fought for us
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Nurse Costello returned thanks…Ever since she had been in Holmfirth, she had been perfectly happy…
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..they thought of the men who had died there, and those who had got well, to go back to meet their death…
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Tributes paid to matron and the sacrifices made by the voluntary staff
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