J. Anne Cloudsley-Thompson
"...the department was allocated a beautiful room on the West Wing..."
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Inventory of the Donation
- Manuscript and typescript recollections
- Tape-recorded interview
- Transcript of tape-recorded interview
- Red Cross buttons and badges
- 18 photographs
An ENSA concert party in the Old Palace, Hatfield House. A FANY, Betsy, on the left. |
ENSA concert party. |
Patients play cards and read in one of the impressive wards. |
Patients play bowls outside the courtyard gates. |
J. Anne Cloudsley-Thompson Audio Clip:
Setting up at Hatfield Military Hospital.
Transcript of Audio Clip
Well, the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy were unsuccessful in their protracted negotiations with the War Office and the RAMC to incorporate a physiotherapy unit and everything was at sixes and sevens but as a result of various negotiations the British Red Cross, in the winter of 1939 asked me whether I would come to Hatfield House to initiate a physiotherapy department as a civilian which, which status physiotherapists retained until the end of the war. . . and . . . So this was rather a nice idea as I had my apparatus and the department was allocated a beautiful room on the West Wing of Hatfield Military Hospital with French windows leading on to the courtyard and washing facilities were hidden behind a massive mahogany door and the French windows opened on to the south-facing courtyard and I offered to bring my electrical equipment from my private practice with me and my green Wilton carpet - a present from my grandmother, from my former practice you see. A plinth and a desk etc. of course, were supplied by the War Office and the, the local ladies who arranged flowers for the main hall and the public areas of the hospital, heard I had been appointed and I was offered accommodation at an extremely comfortable house in Fore Street which was very nice, a stone throw from the west gates of Hatfield House where Mr and Mrs Bennett resided.
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