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Staff at Oakdene Hospital

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Research is ongoing to identify medical and non-medical staff who worked at Oakdene Hospital.  Below are the results of our labours so far......


MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr Hutchinson (retired in May 1915)

Dr C.M. Wild 

Dr Leonard Youatt

COMMANDANT  

Mrs Pearl Hall Bishop originally lived in Newton Lodge, Frodsham and was appointed Commandant of Oakdene in March 1915. When Oaklands Annexe opened in 1917, she took charge there. She remained until the hospital closed in May 1919. Her husband, Major Charles Gamble Bishop was killed in France in 1917.
They had two sons Francis Charles and John Alleyne.

Acknowledgment: Peter & Ellen Holland


‘Mrs Bishop is described as one who possessed great tact and good nature popular with both staff and patients and thoroughly devoted. When stricken by bereavement through the death of Major Bishop, the Commandant was cheered by the presentation of an illuminated address composed by the patients’.  (Liverpool’s Part in the War part 49)

She was awarded the O.B.E. for her service.

Pearl Bishop was remarried to a Mr. Down in 1919.

QUARTERMASTER

Mrs C.D. Stanley appointed 1914

Miss Doris NISBETT followed Mrs Stanley. She married Edgar Heaton in 1920

ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER

Miss Turton (1916)

HEAD NURSE

Sister Deane

NURSES AT OAKDENE HOSPITAL.  (Click on the underlined names to see their records on the British Red Cross website).

Miss Alice ALCOCK - Oct 1918 to May 1919 – pantry orderly Eccleston, St Helens

Miss Alice ANDERS - June 1916 to May 1919 – orderly and later cook Ritherup Lane

Miss Nellie ASHCROFT - June 1918 to May 1919 – pantry orderly St Helens Rd, Prescot  check forename with Red Cross link

Miss Gladys Vera BATES - Jan 1916 to May 1919 – kitchen orderly The Orchard, Huyton

Mrs Emily BIRKETT - Aug 1916 to Mar 1918 – orderly Blundells Lane

Miss Louisa J. BOOTH - Mar 1915 to May 1919 – nursing Wood Lane, Huyton Quarry

Miss May BREEN - Nov 1918 to ???

Miss Bessie MICHELL - June 1915 to May 1918


Christina Margaret ROWED - 1917 - 1919. She died in March 1930.

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Reproduced with kind permission of John Hopkins
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