1st World War Military Hospital Records online

[apowell]

Hi,

Forces war records have started to put certain Military hospital records online (fee payable)

See this link for further information:
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/mil ... al-records

The above are taken from the National Archives MH 106 series (see below for description)
National Archives
Reference:
MH 106

Title:
War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen

Description:
The records in this series are a representative selection of several types of medical records from various theatres of war. They were brought together by the Medical Research Committee and the British Museum during and immediately after the 1914 to 1918 War for use in statistical studies of the treatment for injuries sustained, and diseases contracted, by British troops. The records were later used by the Ministry of Pensions, which inherited them, and subsequently by the War Pensions Branches of its successor departments, to verify claims for war disability pensions.

The records in this series are a representative selection of the original collection. The records include admission and discharge registers from hospitals and casualty clearing stations, field ambulances, an ambulance train and a hospital ship. There are also medical sheets, selected to illustrate the diversity of diseases contracted, injuries received and treatments prescribed and medical cards relating to individuals in selected regiments, together with means of reference to the various types of record and volumes containing information on the provenance and use of the original collection.

Following enquiries from the public, efforts to locate the rest of this collection, or to confirm its fate, have proved unsuccessful. It is believed that the reminder of the records were destroyed before the Second World War.

Also be aware all soldiers medical records have not been saved but if you're lucky enough that yours did then useful information will be available.

Regards
Adrian