{"id":15953,"date":"2016-04-05T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2016-04-05T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:49:18","slug":"the-red-cross-in-abingdon-1915-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15953","title":{"rendered":"The Red Cross in Abingdon 1915-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16040501.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Cross in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Red Cross have a long association with Abingdon. One hundred years ago, during World War I, Tesdale House Auxiliary Hospital was set up in Abingdon. Tesdale House,which I believe is now 22 and 24 Marcham Road (pictured above) &#8211; together with 2 adjoining houses, had 60 beds. There was also a Nissen Hut for recreation set up in the garden.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16040504.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Cross in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe hospital was open for the first soldiers in March 1915 and closed in March 1919 having cared for over 1,000 soldiers. Nurses included Miss Challenor, who gave an account of the hospital in a booklet, about the Red Cross in Berkshire, to be found in Abingdon Library local reference section.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16040505.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Cross in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nNowadays the Red Cross in Abingdon have a building in Colwell Drive, next to McDonalds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16040503.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Cross in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThey still help people in times of crisis. <\/p>\n<p>People interested in finding out more, and possibly helping, will be welcomed to a Coffee Morning next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Cross have a long association with Abingdon. One hundred years ago, during World War I, Tesdale House Auxiliary Hospital was set up in Abingdon. Tesdale House,which I believe is now 22 and 24 Marcham Road (pictured above) &#8211; together with 2 adjoining houses, had 60 beds. There was also a Nissen Hut for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}