On 3rd September, the 2nd/Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the 1st/Royal Welch Fusiliers left Malta on the SS Ultonia. All civil surgeons and Voluntary Aid enrolled personnel were discharged on 22 August in consequence of the withdrawal of the troops from Malta. On 18 August 1914, the Field Ambulance returned to barracks and demobilised on 30 August. Dr P Boffa with two civil subordinates deployed to Zurrieq Camp. Among those appointed were: Lt Col (retd) Richard P Samut RAMC, Doctors R Busuttil, Paolo Grech, J Ellul, B Bonello, Hyzler, A Paris (vice Hyzler who left to attend his civilian patients), A Azzopardi (at Fort Ricasoli), L Frendo, R Balzan, S Ellul Grech, E Said, E H Ferro, G C Anastasi, E Borg, A Frendo, J Inglott, M Micallef Eynaud. They were then attached to a Field Ambulance to learn the rudiments of field sanitation, before being posted to outlying forts or Clearing Hospitals. The civil surgeons spent a few days in a military hospital to familiarise themselves with military procedures. They did not wear a Sam Browne belt as they were not commissioned officers. The Maltese Civil Surgeons in military hospitals wore the ordinary officer's uniform, but with the St John's badge on their collar and black tabs on the collar lapels.
On 6 August 1914, the first of eight medical practitioners and 16 men of the StJAA were employed under the provisions of the Defence Scheme and were sent to Cottonera Hospital to be issued with their uniforms. Forty-eight civilian doctors, 13 lady nurses and 97 trained male nurses (bearers) including 6 pharmacists, 6 compounders and 6 cooks volunteered for service through the St John Ambulance Association. The staff for these hospitals and for the outlying forts was provided by the St John Ambulance Association (StJAA) in accordance with para 101 Malta Mobilisation Order. On 8 August, two non-dieted Clearing Hospitals were opened, one at Zabbar Gate under Major Henry Lawrence Weekes Norrington RAMC and Dr R Busuttil, and another in A Block Floriana Barracks, under Surgeon Major Alfred Eugene Mifsud RMA. Mtarfa Officers mess was reserved for the nurses of the QAIMNS under Matron Miss Jane Hoadley RRC QAIMNS. On 17 August, Forrest Hospital had 69 venereal cases. Those able to do duty were discharged to the ranks the remaining 20 patients were transferred to Forrest Hospital which was expanded by the addition of tentage. Mtarfa Hospital was evacuated of all venereal cases. Only a dispenser, a cook and a steward remained in Valletta to man the Military Families Hospital. Their staff and patients were transferred to the new Mtarfa Barrack Hospital which was set up in Blocks A, B, C and D. On 6 August 1914, the Royal Malta Artillery Hospital at Valletta and the Cottonera Military Hospital were shut in compliance with the Defence Scheme for Malta. A Field Ambulance on parade in 1906 (AMS Archives). Ambulance wagons were positioned at Mtarfa (2 wagons), Mellieha Camp (1 wagon), Ghajn Tuffieha Camp (1 wagon) and Bir-id-Deheb (2 wagons). A Section joined Fortress Reserve at Attard B Section moved to Bir id-Deheb C Section deployed to Iz-Zebbiegh near Mgarr. On the declaration of war, he mobilized his Field Ambulance with its three sections to their respective war stations. The Valletta Hospital had been used for the sick of the Royal Malta Artillery (26 beds) and as a Military Families Hospital (10 beds). He also placed his four hospitals, Cottonera (278 beds), Mtarfa (55 beds), Forrest (20 beds) and Valletta Hospital in the Precautionary Stage to war. On 29 July 1914, six days before Great Britain formally declared war on Germany, Deputy Director Medical Services (DDMS) Malta Command Colonel Michael William Russell RAMC recalled his medical officers and men of 30 Coy RAMC from leave.
1 It received the sick and wounded from the Dardanelles (25 April 1915 – 8 January 1916) and from the campaign in Salonica (5 October 1915 – 30 September 1918). Malta became the nurse of the Mediterranean. But the prime contribution of the Maltese Islands to the war effort was a humanitarian one. During the Great War, Maltese Labour Battalions served in Mudros and Salonica and a Cyprus Contingent of the King's Own Malta Regiment of Militia served outside Malta.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 triggered off a cascade of events, the repercussions of which touched virtually every household. Giuseppe Grech was saved from drowning on invoking the succour of the Virgin of Tal Herba. HMS Ocean hit a mine while attempting to force the Straits and sunk on. Military Hospitals in Malta during the Great War Military Hospitals Maltaġ914 - 1918 Home 1799-1979 Medical Officers Articles Regiments Contact Outbreak of War Malta Command - the first 30 days The naval campaign to force the Dardanelles started on.
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