262319 Kenneth Ivan Mitchell Canadian Expeditionary Force Princess Patricias Light Infantry from:Guelph, Ontario, Canada We have a diary written by my grandfather, Kenneth Mitchell during the war, where he describes the hospital and tells with great description, an air raid in Richmond Park. We also have an official photograph taken in the hospital of a ward and its patients at Christmas time.
There was also a member of the aristrocracy (a Lord?) who would come to scribe and write letters for the patients to their families. As my grandfather had had his arm amputated (injured in Passchendale), there is a personal letter from this gentleman to my great-grandmother informing her that my grandfather had had his arm amputated. I believe that this letter is written on stationery with the official letterhead of the hospital. We have the original letter still.
Several years ago, as the paper in the diary is disintegrating, my mother transcribed the diary and typed it out.
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