Appeal for wartime hospital memories
MEMORIES of World War One hospitals which treated tens of thousands of wounded soldiers are needed for a project to mark the conflict’s centenary.
The project – Home Comforts: Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding 1914-19 – is aimed at collecting as much information as possible while memories of the period are still alive and memorabilia is still available.
A lottery grant of £9,800 is helping stage the project, but now organisers need to hear from anyone with memories, stories, or memorabilia related to the 32 Red Cross hospitals and the volunteers - particularly women - who ran them.
Anyone who can help should phone North Yorkshire County Record Office on 01609 777585 or email archives@northyorks.gov.uk.
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