Author Topic: Home of Recovery Barrow upon soar ??? Hospital World war one patient !! UPDATE  (Read 3611 times)

Offline byott

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Hello all.

Can any one please help. A place called Home of Recovery in Barrow upon soar Rothley  Leicester. May have been a workhouse & part of the building being used for sick service men .

Trying to track my  G  great uncle who was there in 1919 and died there feb 1919 suffered from shell shock. & he commited suicide there 3 months later. I have his death certificate. & it states the above Hospital. he had been in the war for over 3 years. Could any one be so kind as to do a search in Local paper. Of suicides of that time.

I now live in Australia. His name is Fredrick charles Byott

Thank you sandra.
 
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Home of Recovery , Barrow upon soar leicester
 Workhouse or Hospital
Great uncle died there in 1919 after being admitted with shell shock. From being on the front lines for over 3 years .commited suicide there 3 months later.  Would like to find out more  Byott name interests

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Re: HOME OF RECOVERY ??? Barrow upon soar
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 December 04 17:08 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sandra,

You might try contacting the  "britregiments"  group mailing list  at http://groups.yahoo.com.  They do not specialize in geneaology, but are helpful to those of us with military questions.

Merry Christmas!  :-)

Alison
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Re: HOME OF RECOVERY ??? Barrow upon soar
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 December 04 11:20 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sandra,

You might try contacting the  "britregiments"  group mailing list  at http://groups.yahoo.com.  They do not specialize in geneaology, but are helpful to those of us with military questions.

Merry Christmas!  :-)

Alison


 Hello Alison.

Thank you for your help. Shall get intouch with them.

 Merry christmas & happy New year  8)

sandra from OZ
Trying to find

Home of Recovery , Barrow upon soar leicester
 Workhouse or Hospital
Great uncle died there in 1919 after being admitted with shell shock. From being on the front lines for over 3 years .commited suicide there 3 months later.  Would like to find out more  Byott name interests