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VAD Hospital, Leckhampton Court, Church Road, Leckhampton |
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| Location: Leckhampton Court, Church Road, Leckhampton | Grid Reference: SO 945194 |
| Opened: 27th February 1915 | Closed: 29th March 1919 |
| Beds: 100 | Average resident patients in 1918: 77 |
| Total Casualties Treated: 1579 | UKNIWM Ref: In due course |
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Photo of Leckhampton Court. By kind permission of Eric Miller, to whom we are most grateful. |
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| Inscriptions on the Memorial: During the Great War of 1914 - 1919 this building was established and maintained as a hospital for British sick and wounded. The Army Council in the name of the Nation thank those who have rendered to it this valuable and patriotic assistance in the hour of its emergency and they desire also to express their deep appreciation of the whole-hearted attention which the staff of this hospital gave to the patients who were under their care. The war has once again called upon the devotion and self sacrifice of British men and women and the Nation will remember with pride and gratitude their willing and inestimable service. | |
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The hospital was staffed by No 42
Gloucestershire Voluntary Aid Detachment and its officers were:
Commandant: Miss Ward, MBE Medical Officers: Dr H R Lloyd-Davies and Dr A M McAdowie Lady Superintendent: Miss Lucy Hill, ARRC Quartermaster: Miss L Whishaw Hon Secretary and Treasurer: Mr S E Harrison |
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Notes by the Commandant
(on closure in 1919):
Glos 42 came into being under its present officers in the spring of 1910. With the advent of war it equipped a hospital, entirely by voluntary contributions, at Leckhampton Court, which was very kindly lent for the purpose by Mrs Cecil Elwes, and was ready for patients by the 1st of November 1914, though it was not used until the following February. The situation of the hospital, its glorious views and gardens, its exhilarating air, and homely old-world atmosphere, were particularly successful in all cases of shell-shock and gas poisoning, while the out-of-door shelters have been the means of complete cure in many cases of chest trouble. Its record of operations is very satisfactory, over 140 having been performed, and every one with a successful result. The discipline maintained by the hospital has been really excellent, the patients themselves taking an interest in their family record. The extensive grounds have afforded ample scope for all kinds of games and provided an outlet for the exuberance of the more convalescent. The personnel of the staff has remained practically the same throughout, except that one Medical Officer - Dr Pearson - volunteered for service in France, and fourteen V.A. members have been posted by Devonshire House to "fresh fields and pastures new", there not being enough work at Leckhampton to employ the many eager and willing helpers. |
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| The building is in use today as part of the Sue Ryder Care organisation - Leckhampton Court Hospice. | |
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Miss Lucy Hill, Lady Superintendent
of Leckhampton Court VAD Hospital, was awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd
Class (titled Associate of the Royal Red Cross) in November
1917. The ARRC is awarded "for special
devotion and competency in the performance of actual nursing
duties."
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