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Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester    Graylingwell War Hospital was located in the West Sussex County Asylum, which had been built in the 1890's at Graylingwell Farm, Summersdale on the outskirts of Chichester. The first patients were admitted on the 24th of March 1915 with 29,412 being treated during the Great War. The military hsopital closed in 1919 and the buildings returning to use as a mental health hospital and was closed in 2001. Most of the buildings have since been demolished. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. We are currently building a database of patients treated in this hospital, if you know of anyone who was treated here, please enter their details via this form Patient Reports. (This section is under construction)   3rd Oct 1916 Those known to have worked or been treated at Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester during the Great War 1914-1918. Johnson Albert Bertram. Bdr. 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There are:0 items tagged Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. 242769 Bdr. Albert Bertram Johnson 63rd Brigade, C Bty. Royal Field Artillery My paternal grandfather, Albert Bertram Johnson was born in Peterborough on the 15th November 1886 to William and Elizabeth Jane Johnson. He worked on the railways before enlisting on 8th August 1914 as one of Kitchener's New Army. He joined the Royal Artillery 63rd Brigade C Bty., part of the 12th Eastern Division and was posted to France on the 1st June 1915. He spent the majority of the war years in France, fighting in the first and second battles of Ypres. He was wounded in action on the 4th May 1917 but no details noted on his record. He contracted influenza in July 1918 and was admitted to Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester on the 1st August 1918 from Number 11 Stationary Hospital at Rouen. On the 17th August 1918, he was admitted to a convalescent hospital at Eastbourne, possibly Summerdown. He was discharged on the 7th December 1918 and returned to his Unit on the 16th December 1918.On the 3rd February 1919 he was sent to a dispersal centre and on the 5th March 1919 he was transferred to Class Z Army Reserve. He was demobbed on the 31st March 1920 and his address was given as 116 GN Cottages, New England, Peterborough, He was 31. He had married Rose Hannah Webb on the 5th November 1917 at Northampton. They had two children, Bertram Walter born on the 4th April 1920 and Muriel born 1924. He returned to work on the railways at Peterborough as a shunter but was tragically killed in a shunting accident at the East Station, Peterborough on the 5th November 1929, his 12th wedding anniversary. 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