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Winterbourne Family History Online... |
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Dr Francis W Crossman at Cleeve Hospital during the time of the Great War. Dr Francis Ward Crossman MB, BS Durh, MRCS Eng, OBE, JP, Surgeon, Medical Director of Hambrook Village Hospital from 1904 and Public Vaccinator. He was the son of Dr Edward Crossman, MD, Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health for Barton Regis Rural Council, and founder of the Hambrook Village Hospital in 1867. Francis' wife was Mrs Alice Crossman, MB, ChB Aberdeen, Physician & Surgeon. Telephone Number at the Hambrook Village Hospital: Frenchay 3. |
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Dr Crossman’s Stretcher Bearers. |
The same day that war was declared Dr Frank Crossman, their MO, called at the homes of his men urging them to join up as a unit. Memories of Frenchay, by Louise Powell. |
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Dr Francis Ward Crossman |
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| Edward Crossman's family lived in the large house next to the Congregational Chapel on Whites Hill Common, not far from the Hambrook Village Hospital that Edward had founded. The baptisms of Edward & Veronica's children are recorded in the Winterbourne Down All Saints Parish Records... | |
