The Army of Clerks and Army forms

Location of the General Hospital?

 

Fame at last ! Thanks for the new addition, to the thread, D b f.

David, apologies, I should have looked at my small library of Army manuals and Advanced Search in Discovery at TNA website first. King's Regulations 1935 Appendix VIII has a list of "Flag Stations" which includes, e.g., "Southern Command: Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley," also "The Tower of London."

WO 334 has the word "station" in a number of phrases: a series of statistics related to hospitals.

You can download this file free:

Title: Lines of Communication Troops: Station Hospital (KUT)
Catalogue reference: WO 95/5274/4

Temperatures in the shade listed: not my cup of tea at all.

 

Forms used for annotations on the blank reverse side. Found in different Liberated POW files.
Army Form F 750
Messing, Requisition for Foodstuffs

 

Found amongst WO 373 series, reverse was used for notes but it does seem to have been completed and signed

Army Form I. 1220a
CLINICAL RECORD CARD (I. 1220)
CODING SLIP

 

Yet another example of the blank reverse being used for correspondence; found in series WO 373/111.

Army Form W4003
Instructions for Delivery of Impressed M.T. Vehicles
Part I and Part II

(Part III appears to have been removed, going by perforated edge at the bottom - and the fact that the paper was 1/4 rotated before being used for a typed list.)

 

Letter from Italy July 1944
I’d rather be a G.P.O. than any other rank in the artillery. Now my G.P.O. days are over I’m surer than ever.
As C.P.O. I have a motley gang of “specialists” “employed men” clerks and assorted riff-raff to administer,
cajole and pacify. No guns, very little esprit de corps and thousands of fiddling details.