Walden Place VAD Hospital

Walden Place Red Cross Hospital was fitted out and ready to accept patients on 16 May 1915.

Staff

The Commandant  and Matron was Mrs J Atkinson

The Quartermaster was Miss Mildred Clayden

Sisters were Stewart, Smith and Wilson

Trained Nurses posted to Walden Place Hospital by Joint War Committee

Miss A W Stol

Miss W Smith

Miss A Pedler

Miss M Rossiter

Miss V P M Wakefield

Miss E Palmer

Miss M Duguid

Miss G R McPherson

There were 43 nurses and 10 unqualified ladies working in the hospital.

Walden Place attracted press attention in February 1916 when Sergeant Coxhall of the Bedfordshire Regiment fell down the staits at the hospital. Seregant Coxall,who had been totally deaf for 3 months after an explosion,  recovered his hearing after the fall.

Other men known to be treated there included

The Hospital closed in May 1919 at which time it was stated that at total of 1,101 men in 48 convoys of wounded were received at the hospital and a ntotal of 796 men in 48 convoyes were treated  at Saffron Walden General Hospital.

Although the Hospital closed both the VAD and the ambulance work under Mr S Wright was to be continued.

Saffron Waldon VAD had 4 section leaders and 31 privates. The Commandant  was Dr John Atkinson and the Quartermaster was Sergeant G Wyatt

Walden Place still stands although it has been converted to a number of flats.