NETLEY ABBEY MATTERS!
Netley Military Hospital Names' Database
Our Database currently holds about 11800 individuals plus all the Hospital
Censuses from 1861 to 1921 and the 1939 Register - and is being continuously added to.
The full Database is not accessible on this website. If you think your ancestor may have been at Netley War Hospital, click on Contact Me and let me know what details you do have.
I will check our files and let you know what we have on file and do some research in the hope of
finding more. My research is free of charge regardless of whether your relative was at
Netley Hospital or not.
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Railway Workers - Patients at Netley Hospital
Private W A Barnes
Service No 275209
Royal Engineers Railway Troops
North Eastern Railway - Brampton Junction
Died at Netley Hospital on 15/08/1919, 27, suffering with Cellulitis of the mouth
and toxaemia.
Buried at Netley Military Cemetery CE 2016
Lance-Corporal Frank Hansome Blackburn
Service No 200280
1/5 Bn West Yorkshire Regiment
Wood Machinist North Eastern Railway
Died at Netley Hospital 05/12/1918, 36
He is on the York Cemetery Memorial.
Private Robert William Clark
Service No 85115
11th Bn Pioneers Depot Durham LI
Crane Lad at Hull Docks, North Eastern Railway
Died at Netley Hospital 14/07/1918, 19.
Buried at Holy Trinity, Hessle Road Cemetery, Hull
Private Sydney Herbert Clark
Service No PW/4061
18th Bn Middlesex Regiment
Labourer with Chief Civil Engineer's Department, Great Eastern Railway
Died at Netley Hospital on 27/09/1916 of wounds
On Memorial at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Barkingside
Private Wilfred Lancaster
Service No 42725
West Yorkshire Regiment
Cleaner for the North Eastern Railway Darlington. Age 19. He died at University War Hospital, Southampton on 28/09/1917 from the effects of gas poisoning 2 months previously. He is buried in Netley Military Cemetery CE 1926
Private William Bellerby Morrod
Service No 301892
1/8th Bn Durham Light Infantry
Clerk at Divisional Locomotive Superintendent's Office, North Eastern Railway, York. Age 20.
Died at Netley Hospital on 12/03/1917.
Private Frank Sealey
Service No 7341
1st Bn South Wales Borderers
An Army Reservist, he worked for Great Western Railway, Dock Street, Newport
in the Engineering Department.
He died at Netley Hospital, 30, on
08/11/1914 from a gunshot wound to his head during the Battle of Aisne.
He is buried in Netley Military Cemetery, CE 1628.
Private F H Veale
Service No G/8828
4th Bn Middlesex Regiment
Porter at Great Western Railways Goods Depot, Smithfield, London. Age 27.
Died at Netley Hospital on 14/01/1915.
He is buried in Netley Military Cemetery, CE 1657
If you recognise any of the above and either wish to know more or are able to share more information about them, please click on Contact me. Thank you.
A Journey through Netley War Hospital in June through the Years ...
Hospital Notices
At Southampton, on the 6th inst., in the 71st year of his age and the 42nd of his ministry,
the Reverend Charles Donald Kay, D.D., minister of St Mary's Presbyterian Church, Woolston, Southampton, and Acting Chaplain to the Forces, Netley Hospital, sometime minister at the Free Church of Scotland at Innerlaithen and Comrie, died.
Perthshire Advertiser 12/06/1912
For the purpose of training disabled Service men in agriculture and horticulture, the Imperial
Service Farm Committee is to organise a model farm in the grounds of Netley Hospital.
The Government has undertaken to provide the necessary experts, and material and appliances will be obtained from Government sources.
Hampshire Advertiser 14/06/1919
Hospital Obituaries
News has been received by Mrs Milligan, previously Wilson, 62 Rosefield Road, Troqueer, Dumfries, that her son, Private William Wilson, King's Own Scottish Borderers, died on Tuesday, 18 June 1940 at Netley Hospital as the result of a wound in the thorax from an anti-tank bullet, received during a period of intense fighting when Private Wilson and his comrades were assisting in covering the evacuation of the British troops.
He himself was a tank driver, and although only nineteen years of age last month, was well known
for his daring. Prior to the outbreak of war he had served six months with the 4th KOSB, and when hostilities began, he was called and transferred to the 5th KOSB. He was a young man of a likeable disposition and was well known in Dumfries. His first job leaving school was at the chocolate stall at the Lyceum Theatre. Thereafter he was with Air John Campbell, Builders’ Merchant, Buccleuch Street, and, before joining up, with the Motor Salvage Company, King Street, Maxwelltown.
The funeral will take place to-day at 2.30 from Rosefield Road to St Andrew’s Cemetery.
Dumfries and Galloway Standard 22/06/1940
Portsmouth R.A. Man Shot - Verdict
Evidence in this inquiry stops short of manslaughter, but it is very near it” commented the Southampton Count Coroner, Mr. Percy B. Ingoldby, in recording a verdict of 'Death by misadventure’ at yesterday’s inquest on Gunner Henry Thomas Male, Royal Artillery, who died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, of a gunshot wound.
"There has been a grave dereliction of duty", added the Coroner. The cause of death was
a gunshot wound in the neck, and that death is due to misadventure, but my verdict does not preclude further action by the military authorities or the police.
“If it is not a military crime to commit an act of this kind, it is time it became so. It’s wrong that life should be lost owing to carelessness of this kind.”
Male, whose home was Arundel Street, Portsmouth, died on Friday.
His identity was established by Lt the Hon. David Edward Healy Hutchinson. RA.
The Coroner: “Is it a military offence to point a rifle at anyone?”
Witness said there was no military law prohibiting the pointing of a rifle.
Portsmouth Evening News 22/06/1940
In loving memory of my dear son Harry (Male), 21 years, late RA who passed away June 21
at Netley Hospital, from wounds. Will be sadly missed.
From his brokenhearted Mum, Dad, brothers and sisters Wed, John, Harold, Ron, Edie,
Flo and Doll, 202 Arundel Street.
Funeral - Thursday at 2.45 p.m. All Saints’ Church. Burial - Milton Cemetery.
Portsmouth Evening News 26/06/1940
Sporting Fixtures
Netley 1st XI played R.V. Hospital Cricket Club, a very close game resulting in a win for Royal
Victoria Hospital by seven runs.
The Hospital team completed 121, afterwards dismissing Netley for 114.
For the Hospital Corporal Parnell 36 and Sergeant McCurragh 21 batted well, and for Netley,
C M Gibbon (37) and R Hodder (18), made the best scores. The Hospital team fielded
exceptionally well, Private Nash bringing off two fine catches.
Hampshire Telegraph 03/06/1927
Did you know ...
within the pages of the History of Netley Military Hospital on this website, the names of
hundreds of Members of Staff, Patients, family members are mentioned?
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