Handicrafts at Netley

Technical hut where convalescents made items which were sold to raise funds

From Netley Hospital Heritage archive. Making baskets.

Yorkshire Post 2nd May 1916 Disabled soldiers.

Daily Mirror 16th January 1917

Daily Record 3rd February 1917 Lady Swaythling.

Daily Mirror 2nd August 1917 Pte. SIMMICK making toys.

They also made embroidered items too

made by gunner SOUTHALL in 1917

St. Paul's Tapestry Soldiers

Direct descendants of soldiers badly injured during the conflicts of WWI are being sought by St Paul’s, as the Cathedral prepares to display a unique piece of embroidery crafted by more than 100 recovering men.

Months of research by the Cathedral’s Collections Department has revealed 133 names of men from the UK, Canada, Australia and South Africa, who worked to create an elaborate altar frontal, used for many years after the War at the high altar.

http://www.stpauls.co.uk/News-Press/Latest-News/Art-from-war-descendants-of-WWI-soldiers-sought-for-St-Pauls-commemoration

The following soldiers were at Netley and made a contribution to the tapestry. If you are related to any of the men, please let me know and click on the link too.

L/Cpl A rthur John BELL Military Foot Police

Pte. Cormick Mc CHORD Sutherland Regiment

Pte. Edward Lawrence CLAY R.A.S.C.

Gunner Samuel CLEWES R.F.A.

Pte. Frederick E. DAVIS Somerset Light Infantry

Pte. Albert Gilbert MacDERMOTT Hampshire Regiment

Pte. William GLASSBY York and Lancaster Regiment

Cpl. W. HIGGINS 4th City of London Regiment

Pte. Leonard J.COLLINGS 7th Buffs Regiment (East Kent) Welsh Hospital

Spr. William Alfred MATTHEWS Royal Engineers

Pte. William Augustus NEWARK 1/20th London Regiment

Sgt Charles Howard REYNOLDS 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment