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High Barnet Red Cross Hospital
High Barnet Red Cross Hospital was located at Ewen Hall, Wood Street, Barnet which was the church hall of Barnet United Reformed Church. Providing 25 beds it opened in March 1915, staffed by the Hertford 32 Voluntary Aid Detachment and Miss Winifred Game was the Commandant. By the end of the conflict the number of beds had increased to 70 and the hospital closed in closed in April 1919.If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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- Cochrane Samuel Henry. Pte.
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263730Pte. Samuel Henry Cochrane 48th Highlanders of Canada
My father, Samuel Cochrane was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on or about 10th of April 1917. He was first sent to a Canadian Field Hospital near Outreau, France and then to High Barnet Hospital on the 15th of April, 1917. On the 9th of May he transferred to Woodcote Park Convalescent Hospital. After recuperating, he returned to the Front. On the 6th of April, he returned to Canada and was discharged from the Army. He re-enlisted in the Canadian Army on or about 1940/41 and trained recruits for the Regina Rifle Regiment, which distinguished itself on D-Day. My father passed away in 1964 in Regina, Saskatchewan.Barry Cochrane
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