Oakwood VAD Hospital Chigwell
Oakwood Hospital at Chigwell opened in March 1915 with 6 patients suffering from frostbite.
The staff were
Matron Miss Shaw
Commandant Miss I Gould
Quartermaster Miss O Savill
Medical Officers Dr Pratt and Dr Gordon-Brown
Support was provided by the VAD at Chigwell ( VAD 82) and Chigwell Row
Trained Nurses posted to Oakwood Hospital by Joint War Committee
Miss A M Shaw
Miss G A Hextall
Miss E Nelson
Miss F M McGusty
Miss M Turtle
November 1917.
In November 1917 a ceremony was held at the Hospital to present service awards
Five years Service Award
Miss Isabel Gould - Commandant
Miss Beatrice Gould - Vice Commandant
Miss Hilda Bastard - Quartermaster
Mrs O L Pratt Quartermaster from 1912 to March 1917
Mrs Miles - Lady Superintendent
Mrs L Savill - Cook
Miss Winifred Savill - Member
Miss Ada Daniels - Member
Miss Lynette Daniels - Member
Mrs Ingram - Member
Mrs Boddington - Member
Miss Eva Ransome - Member
Mrs Pain - Member
Miss Winifred Moseley - Member
Miss Phyllis Abbot - Special Service Member
Two Years Service
Mrs Ellen Fish - Asst Quartermaster
Mrs Dorothy Hambridge - Cook
Miss Laura Hambridge - Special Service Member
Mrs Florence Lambert
Mrs Constance Power
Mrs Mable Underwood
Mrs Polglase
Miss Hanbury-Tracey
Miss Muriel Hambridge
Miss Constance Paget
Miss Kate Paget
Mrs L Wait
Miss Nan Bastard
Mrs Gathorne Savill
Miss R Heard
5 December 1917
Mrs Frances Cooke, Matron of Oakwood Hospiital for the previous 2 1/2 years was presented with the Royal Red Cross Medal at Buckingham Palace by the King.
February 1919
In February 1919 the hospital closed.
Staff at the time were
Commandant Miss Isabel L Gould
Vice Commandant Miss Beatrice Gould
Matron Miss Swann
Medical Officers Dr Pratt and Dr Gordon Brown
Quartermaster Miss Hilda Bastard
Asst Quartermaster Mrs Ellen Fish
Four year service bars were presented to Night Nurse Miss Garrett and orderly Mrs C Allen
