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    Feb 11, 2020 6 minutes

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    Hospital project seeks name search help

    Two researchers are appealing for help in tracing the names of thousands of people who passed through the doors of a military hospital in Hampshire during its 115-year history.

    Julie Green and Brenda Findlay, of Netley Abbey near Southampton, are independent researchers gathering information about the past lives and times of the Royal Victoria Military Hospital (Netley War Hospital) and its cemetery. Brenda runs the Netley Abbey Matters website at www.netleyabbeymatters.co.uk while Julie manages the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley website at www.netley-military-cemetery.co.uk and their joint current project is to collate the names of the staff, patients, civilians, family members and medical students who walked the corridors of the Royal Victoria Military Hospital during its lifetime, 1863-1978. Thus the hunt for thousands of names is on.

    Brenda explained: ‘Whilst there are no official registers, there are pockets of information in all manner of places – newspaper articles, family notices, trade directories, obituaries, telephone books, private and public websites, past employees’ memories etc.

    ‘We have trawled through

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