Which Hospital? - Leeds 1917

[Colin Cruddace]

Hi,

My grandad won a gallantry medal during WW1 and a local newspaper reported the citation but also added that he was at present in hospital at Leeds, having been wounded and gassed.

Can anyone suggest which hospital, or hospitals, this might be and where I would find any medical records.

Thanks,
Colin

[mmm45]

Colin
Could i have his name and regiment? there may be military records available...there were a number of war hospitals around Leeds.Ill have a look in Leeds and The Great War and may have some locations.

Ady

[Colin Cruddace]

Hello Ady, thanks for the quick response and offer.

He was Benjamin Cruddas (the Army got that wrong, as well!!) and was a sergeant with the Durham Light Infantry, service number 7202.

I've got his war service pretty well covered, apart from his hospitalisation. My mother says that he had a finger missing so this may have been the injury. Thankfully not a serious one and it didn't stop him going back.

Regards,
Colin

[mmm45]

Hi Colin
Cant locate the CDROM at mo but will find it for tomorrow.

http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/hospitals/2northerngeneralhospital.php

The above one was the big hospital.... but there were a lot of smaller ones in the area.

I take it you have DCM card and citation plus his Medal Index Card?
I see what you mean about army spelling and his surname how many ways!!!

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031118_14048403


Will post other possibilities later today.

Ady

[Colin Cruddace]

Hi Ady,

Yes, I have his Medal Index Cards, DCM as Cruddas and normal campaign medals as Cruddis.

I've also just got his entries on the Queen's South Africa Medal Rolls for the Boer Wars. The original entry didn't show the battles he was in, and which clasps were due, so they made a supplementary entry to correct it. The first had his surname as Cruddas and the correction as Cruddis.

Regards,
Colin

[mmm45]

http://www.yorkshireindexers.co.uk/forums/portal.php

Colin
Cannot find my cd at present may be worth asking on this site.I got the CDRom from this site.

Ady

[acorna]

It would quite likely have been the East Leeds War Hospital (now called St James University Hospital) unless he needed specialist care, this site has a good list
http://www.1914-1918.net/hospitals_uk.htm
all the leeds hospitals are now part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, you could try contacting them, though older records, if they still exist, are probably in the west yorkshire archives now. Hope that helps,
Acorna.

[Colin Cruddace]

Ady and Acorna,

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't had much time to check them out but I appreciate the links. My gut reaction is that the NHS Trust should be my first point of enquiry for medical records, and see where it goes from there.

Regards,
Colin

[chrisj1961]

What about considering High Royds at Menston near Leeds? one of my relatives was gassed in WW1 and was also shell shocked.  He was sent to High Royds to recover (not that he did - he actually died there).  Some records for High Royds are available at the West Yorkshire archives.