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Staff at Tower Hospital

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Research is ongoing to identify medical and non-medical staff who worked at Tower Hospital.  Below are the results of our labours so far.  Please get in touch via our Contact Page if you have any information to add or recognise any of the individuals in the photographs.

STAFF AT THE TOWER HOSPITAL

MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr Reid (1915)

Col. R. Jackson (1916-1918) ‘When the Tower Hospital opened in Feb 1915, Colonel R. Jackson, R.A.M.C. and A.D.M.S. of the 55th Division was on active service in France. When he returned from France in April 1916, he took over the post of Medical Officer and continued until the Hospital closed.’ (Liverpool Courier)
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COMMANDANT  

Mrs Doris Jackson was appointed Commandant at a meeting in Jan 1914. Her husband was Col. R. Jackson (mentioned above).














QUARTERMASTER

Mrs Robert Rawlins appointed 1914.

Miss Tuff (later Mrs Price) became Quartermaster after Mrs Rawlins.

ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER

Miss M Reid (1916)

SECTION LEADERS

Miss T Reid

Miss B or E Rawlinson
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NURSES AT TOWER HOSPITAL

‘The undermentioned have been brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War by the Chairman of the Joint War Committee from the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem in England for valuable services rendered in connection with the war’ :-

BRAMWELL Miss G. - Tower Aux. Hosp. Rainhill

EVANS Miss P.K. – Tower Aux. Hosp. Rainhill

EVANS Miss R…... – Tower Aux. Hosp. Rainhill

HOLME Miss F…. Tower Aux. Hosp. Rainhill

‘Under the auspices of the Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, the following Nurses have been deputed to service in Home Hospitals’ :-
(British Journal of Nursing)

BLY – Miss Evelyn Bly - The Tower, Rainhill - 29 July 1916

FISHER – Miss H. Fisher - The Tower, Rainhill - Mar 25th 1916

HOBDAY - Miss M. A. Hobday. The Tower, Rainhill - Oct. 14, 1916

WATKIN Mary Ellen (Mollie)* The Tower, Rainhill – July 1915 to Feb 1916, then to Malta      link

WOOD – Miss A. Wood – The Tower Hospital, Rainhill - 19th Aug 1916

Individual records for all Red Cross volunteers in the First World War are currently being digitised and made available on the Red Cross website.

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Photos reproduced with kind permission of John Hopkins and the late Tom Rolt
To see a 'then and now' version of the above picture, go to the Rainhill Civic Society website.
With over 100 beds no doubt the kitchen staff were kept very busy.
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The photographs below show both staff and patients outside Tower Hospital with some of the soldiers in beds and bathchairs.  The bulldog taking centre stage was clearly much loved and can be seen on numerous photographs.
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Memories of WW1
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Please see Beatrice Ashton's memories on the Home Fires page detailing how her family helped out at The Tower
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