Volunteers needed to help capture heritage of military hospital 

Volunteers are needed for a project to capture memories of a military hospital on Merseyside which pioneered treatment for soldiers with ‘shell-shock’ during the First World War.

If you are interested in local or family history drop in to Meadows Library in Maghull on July 21st (11am-4:30pm), where you can meet the team running a new project celebrating this important, but little-known heritage, and find out how you can get involved.

Moss Side Military Hospital in Maghull treated over 3,600 patients between opening in December 1914 and 1919, and became renowned in the developing field of psychological medicine. Clinical staff at the time were described as “the brilliant band of workers who…made Maghull the centre for the study of abnormal psychology.”