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197 Our Wool Wich Mess, 1882-1932. I J R Army Med Corps: first published as 10.1136/jramc-60-03-06 on 1 March 1933. Downloaded from 197 OUR WOOL WICH MESS, 1882-1932. By MAJOR J. F. BOURKE, M.C., Royal A1'my Medical Oorp8. I.-EARLY DAYS, 1882-1890; MANY various causes are responsible for the fact tbat the minutire of the minor happenings of mIlitary domestic life are so quickly lost, and that the reconstruction of the picture of the daily life of an epoch, which has only just passed away, may be so difficult The Woolwich Mess is particularly fortunate in one respect concerning its hIstory, for the original minute book recording the meetiIlg which founded the mess has been in use for every E\1ibsequent meeting, and should serve the same pmpose for a generous time to come; unless succeeding members become more prolix than their predecessors. guest. Protected by copyright. With this minute book as the basis the task of narrating the foundation and the vicissitudes of the mess over a period of fifty years becomes a· fairly simple one. The present time is appropriate for such a record as March 7, 1932, was the Jubilee anniversary of the establishment of the original Army Medical Department Mess at Woolwich in 1882. The mess owed its origin to the dynamic personality of the late Smgeon­ General Sir George Evatt, who was then a Surgeon-Major serving at the Royal Military Academy. Surgeon-Major Evatt was then at .the zenith of his activities, for it was in 1883 that he materially assisted in the early work which led to the formation of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, wrote a book, which went to three editions, on Army Medical. Organization, and in the following http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/ year founded the Medical Officers of Schools Association. His restless energy found a further outlet in 1886, when he wac; a parliamentary candidate. in the Liberal interest for W oolwich, but success did not crown his efforts in that venture. It was on March 7, 1882, that a meeting of the medical officers stationed in Woolwich was held at the qadet Hospital of the Royal Military Academy to consider the formation of an Army Medical Department Officers' Mess at Woolwich. The Army List for March of that year shows that there were eighteen medical officers in Wool wich, and of these sixteen were present at the on October 1, 2021 by meeting; doubtless duty, leave or. casualties. accounted for the remaining two. Surgeon-General J. M. S. Fogo was in the chair; but, a.s he retired two months later; it may pethaps be legitimately deduced that he was not the leading spirit of the movement. J R Army Med Corps: first published as 10.1136/jramc-60-03-06 on 1 March 1933. Downloaded from 198 Our Woolwich Mess, 1882-1932 From various sources it would appear that a number of the more senior medical officers, who had been brought up in the regimental system, viewed with little favour the establishment of a purely medical mess .. Surgeon-Major Evatt voiced the views of the more progressive party who were yndeavouring to make the Medical Services a:. complete and corporate . entity in the Army. At this point it may be well to look at the military situation in Wool wich at the time in question. Woolwich ranked as a "District Command" under a Major-General directly subordinate to the Commander~in-Chief. rrhe garrison consisted of an active brigade of Royal Horse Artillery, another of Field Artillery, and the large depot for training artillery recruits. There was in addition a complete· battalion of infantry (1st Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment) and a detachment of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose battalion headquarters were at Warley. (The guard duties at the'Royal Arsenal were then performed by the infantry and absorbed a considerable number of dutymen daily.) Two companies of the Commissariat and Transport Corps were also in guest. Protected by copyright. the garrison; but the Army List only shows a total of six officers of the Commissariat and Transport staff, ·three of whom were quartermasters and one a " Temporary Captain and Deputy Assistant Commissary General on probation~" ... The medical establishments were the Herbert Hospital, completed in 1866 at a cost of £220,000, the Auxiliary Hospital (now the Medical Inspection Room) dose to the Artillery and the Commissariat barracks, the Cadet Hospital at the Royal Military Academy, and the medical department of the Royal Arsenal. The personnel consisted of eighteen officers of the Army Medical Department, with one Surgeon-General, one Brigade-Surgeon, eleven Surgeon-Majors andfiye Surgeons, which presents the same type of disparity between the normal relatiye proportion of ranks as that at present http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/ existing. III addition there was an Apothecary (ranking as a Captain) whose dress the Army List states was scarlet uniform, grey cloth facings and edgings, " no pouch or belt." A Captain of Orderlies of the Army Hospital Corps, of which No. VIII Division waS quartered at the Herbert Hospital, completes the medical picture. (It is interesting to note that the Army Hospital Corps officer at the Depot in Aldershot in 1882 is described as "Lieutenant of Orderlies and Instructor of Musketry.") on October 1, 2021 by . This theilwas the situation at Woolwich when the first meeting was held to consider the question of the formation of a "Meeting Place" for medical officers. The first entry is to the effect that Surgeon-General Fogo requeRted Surgeon-Major Evatt to act as Secretary of the meeting. J R Army Med Corps: first published as 10.1136/jramc-60-03-06 on 1 March 1933. Downloaded from J. F. BOU1'ke ]99 The cart is very definitely put in front of the horse by the first .. two resolutions, which settle the rates of entrance contribution and monthly subscriptions before the question was raised as to whether the meeting should decide to form a mess or not. The real problem was faced in the fourth resolution, which was "That the establishment be formed, independeutly of dining arrangements, as a convenient and comfortable place of meeting for Officers, Army Medical Department." An amendment" That a Mess be started in Woolwich for the convem­ ence ef all Officers Army Medical Department" having been lost, the original resolution was carried by a majority of four votes. Surgeon. General Fogo then proposed a nominated Committee of five under Brigade-Surgeon J. Wiles as President,. with Surgeon-Major Evatt as Secretary and Treasurer, so selected as to give equal representation to the married and unmarried members, excluding the President. It is rather curious at the present time to read the sixth resolution, " Whether the establishment be called Mess or Institute,': and to learn that the designation of a mess was only gained by the narrow margin of guest. Protected by copyright. two votes as a majority in the meeting of sixteen. , It would seem that there W3,S a solid block of six medical officers who did not wish allY" convenient and comfortable place of meeting" to be formed, if this voting is viewed in relation to the result of the voting on the fourth resolution quoted above. The remaining voter against the use of the term I, Mess" may have had in mind tha Royal Artillery Institution at "\Voolwich or the Royal Engineers Institute at Chatham and have desired the it Meeting Place ;, to be conducted on similar lines. The rest of the business I1t this meeting was of a purely domestic character relating to the collection and banking of subscriptions, the raising of a loan to purchase furniture and other matters of moment at thE:: time, but of no particular interest now. http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/ The llext meeting was held 'a fortnight later, as the Director-General had intervened to point out that under the existing Queen's Regulations married officers could only be called on to pay half rates of the normal mess subscription. The necessary resolution was passed to regularize the position. Surgeon-Major Evatt having been thanked for a gift of £:25 to the mess, the meeting was dissolved. Although there is no specific record it would seem that one of the factors which prompted the movement to establish the Army Medical Department on October 1, 2021 by Mess was thatvery suitable m~ss premises, centrally situated, were available owing to the paucity of officers in the Commissariat and Transport Staff having Jed to the closure of the old Commissariat Mess. ,Furniture and fittings were purchased .from this mess and a cheque for £55 14s. Sd. was despatched to it Assistant Commissary General Packyn" on May 30, 1882. J R Army Med Corps: first published as 10.1136/jramc-60-03-06 on 1 March 1933. Downloaded from 200 QUI' Woo/wich Mess, 1882-1!J32 (This inrormatioll is contained in the copy of a letter recorded in the minute book along with some nine other letters relating to mess affairs in 1882.) Sanction was obtained for the lVIedical 0 Ilicers' Library to be removed from the HerberL Hospital to the ne\..,- mess, together with certain furniture therefrom. A note of explanation might appropriately be made here of the history of the barracks then occllpied by the Corumissariat and Transport, and still in the hands of their lineal descendants, the Royal Army Service Corps. 'rhe vast mass of barracks for the Royal Artillery was commenced in guest. Protected by copyright. http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/ FIG. I.-Mess in Commifu:!ariat and Transport Barracks (1882-1890). 1776 and in co-relation with the scheme the necessary provision had to be made for the hospitalization of the inevitable sick.
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