A couple more resources I have come across during my research in to the Welsh Hospital in South Africa. I have had to put them in the miscellany category because of the range of subjects covered.
Attached is a PDF of an article that appeared in the British Medical Journal of 20th April 1901. It includes abstracts from two talks given by one of the Welsh Hospital’s surgeons on his return to Wales.
The article has 4 sections:
“Methods of Pitching Hospital Marquees” – must simpler and better than those given in the RAMC regs.
“Types of Bullets and Wounds Produced by Them” – this includes some photos of unused cartridges and parts of shells and some used distorted bullets and fragments of shells.
“Forceps Tourniquet” – with a couple of illustrations not for the squeamish.
“General Remarks” – this includes: the hand sores suffered by the Welsh Hospital staff and how a week at the seaside cured them; a plea for hospital trains to be white rather than just relying on difficult to spot red crosses for protection; the uselessness of brassards (I do have to point out that my Grandfather, as a signaller, wore a brassard throughout WW1 and survived although I think that had a lot to do with him being attached to a Corps HQ for most of the war).
The preceding article is also obviously about the Boer War and it strikes me the British Medical Journal and the Lancet of the day could be useful sources of information regarding the ABW. However, I do not know how to access them – this article appeared in response to googling “The Welsh Hospital in South Africa”.
Secondly, I have come across a website entitled “NURSES ON THE VELDT”. It is a searchable database of nurses who served in the Boer War of 1899-1902. For the majority It gives their rank (for want of a better word), full name (not just the initials found on medal rolls), the service they were employed by during the war, their Nurse Registration Number and the date they registered, the hospital they trained at and references to the medal rolls they appear in and mentions in The Times. For the minority it gives their date and place of birth. This is the link:
boerwarnurses.com/boer-war-nurses-database/
