Record Office: Anyone visiting the London Metropolitan Archives ?

[Paul (chunky monkey)]

If anyone is going and would be so kind, as mentioned elsewhere I'm trying to establish which happened to my Gt Uncle who was a constable in the Metropolitan Police and died of injuries sustained whilst on duty. The Met have no detail of what happened and I've drawn a blank with newspapers. The City of Westminster Archives have suggested perhaps looking up the hospital records ?

His name was Alfred Thomas SMITH and he died, I believe 20th December 1914. It's most likely that he would have been at St Mary's, Paddington, as per the following link;

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=118&page=7&hospital=&town=London&searchdatabase.x=114&searchdatabase.y=13

Many thanks in anticipation
Paul

[Christine in Herts]

My great grandfather died at the Middlesex Hospital in 1917. I keep meaning to have a look at the records. If your query is still outstanding, I might try to combine the research with my own... unless the Middx stuff is at the Westminster Archives, of course!

Or it might be possible to combine it with a trip to one of the free Gresham lectures in the City.

Christine

[Paul (chunky monkey)]

Thanks Christine. I rarely get to London unfortunately, last time I had the chance was about 3 years ago :(