Matron Of The Hospital

A Memory of Richmond.

My maternal grandmother, Sarah Oates, was matron of this hospital sometime during World War 1. My mother, who was born in 1914, remembers soldiers marching down the road past the hospital, presumably going to or coming from Catterick Garrison.
Sarah had sisters who were also nurses. My mother was a nurse at the beginning of the second world war. I trained at the RVI in Newcastle and my daughter nurses in Canada! So Richmond Cottage Hospital is responsible for a dynasty of nurses!