Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow was opened in 1904. In 1914 it was requisitioned by the Royal Army Medical Corps and operated as the 3rd and 4th Scottish Hospitals.
My data on personnel working for these two hospitals is very thin indeed but it looks as though men joining the 3rd Scottish General Hospital commenced a new number series in early 1913, these numbers later suffixed with the letter A. So for instance, 91A George Pirie joined the 3rd Scottish General Hospital on the 14th November 1914, 92A John Gracie on the 21st, 96A Archibald McDonald on the 2nd December 1914 and so on.
Men joining the 4th Scottish General Hospital were given numbers from a different series and again, it looks as though a new number series was also begun for these men in early 1913. These numbers had no suffix and it seems logical to suggest that this was deliberate and a way of differentiating 3rd SGH men from 4th SGH men.
See also, 1st Scottish General Hospital, and 2nd Scottish General Hospital.
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Thomas Anderson Morris (320295) was attached to the 3rd SG Hospital on the 18 Oct 1916. He was killed in action in France on 24 March 1918 while serving with the 139 Field Ambulance Unit, RAMC. He was my great uncle.
Just come across a letter from a J J Macdonald 3rd S G H March 1916...a small poem written in an autograph book full of thin gs like this
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