Recently found historic items and documents at the Erskine Hospital (www.erskine.org.uk), which for a century has treated military patients, are to be catalogued thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk). The cataloguing will be carried out by Glasgow University Archive Service, which has acquired the collection. The story is online at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34899609. Note also the following line in the BBC story:Erskine are currently working on a patient database of every soldier admitted and discharged at the hospital during its history, which will become a research resource for families tracing their ancestry.
The items retrieved include original prosthetic limbs and tools.
Chris
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