The Royal Hospital Chelsea at War

The untold story of the aged and infirm facing the horrors of the Blitz at Chelsea, a significant gap in the historical record

Martin Cawthorne spent a career in finance before he began volunteering at the Royal Hospital. He worked on a project to digitise part of the institution's archive collection while undertaking a Master's degree in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford, for which he researched the Hospital's wartime history. Martin is now recognised as the expert on the institution's wartime story and works with the Royal Hospital Chelsea on a number of heritage and outreach projects.