Surrey History Centre
Record types
- Administrative
- 1914 - 1919
- General
- 1914 - 1919
Finding aids
- Location
- At Repository (AR), Local Record Office (LRO), National Register of Archives (NRA)
- Details
- SMC Reference: 1688
Hospital
Thorncombe Military Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Address
- Bramley
- Foundation Year
- 1914
- Status
- Closed (since 1919)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Not Applicable
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Not Applicable
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Not Applicable
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Not Applicable
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- Pre-1974 County
- Surrey
- Post-1974 County
- Not Applicable
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Type
- Pre-1948
- Military, Other
- Pre-1948 information
- War Hospital
Other information
1688 Papers Relating to Thorncombe Military Hospital and Hospital fund, Bramley; 1914 - 1987 Presented by Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, GVCO, MC in September 1988. Formerly RBO1979 The hospital was open between 16 October 1914 and 31 January 1919, a total period of 4 years and 3 months. It was named after the house in which it was sited, Thorncombe Park, which was owned by Colonel Herbert Fisher Rowe. During this time 2,289 patients were treated (men from all parts of the Empire who had been wounded in the war.) The hospital was run with a considerable amount of voluntary assistance from local people, in the form of mending, cooking and cleaning. The hospital's income, totalling £21,557 came from a variety of sources: £13,802 - from Government grants £986 - from County funds. The remainder (£6,796) came from local sources, including subscriptions, donations, the proceeds of entertainments and other collections. When the hospital closed, at the end of the First World War, there was approximately £1,150 left in hand and it was decided to donate it to the Thorncombe Hospital Fund. This fund had originally been set up by local people to provide comforts for the wounded men in the hospital. At the end of the war the balance of funds from the hospital were invested in war loan stock and the income from this investment was to be given to the hospital fund. After the war, the fund was to be used for the "medical comforts and appliances and other incidental benefits to the sick and needy of the village of Bramley, Thorncombe, Grafham, Wonersh, Blackheath and Shamley Green". (These representing the area from which the money had originally been subscribed.)