Adele Mack Gerstley

Mrs Adele Mack Gerstley
Born	1886
Died	1973
Residence	129 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, W1 61 Great Cumberland Place, W1 [1923]
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1933 last listed elected_AI 1922.06.27

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House Notes

1922.06.27 proposed by E.N. Fallaize, seconded by A. Keith
spelt Gentley before 1929 list

Notes From Elsewhere

Adele Hannah Gerstley (Mack)
Birthdate: May 05, 1886 (86)
Birthplace: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
Death: February 13, 1973 (86)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Adolph Mack and Clara Mack
Wife of James Gerstley
Mother of James Mack Gerstley; Edith Mack Gerstley and Margaret Helen Button
Sister of Edith Miriam Brandenstein; Harold Lewis Mack and Gerstle Lewis

Gerstley-Hoare Hospital for Officers 53 Cadogan Square, Belgravia, SW1X 0HY
During WW1 Louise Hoare, cousin of the politician Samuel Hoare, joined the British Red Cross. After initial training, she was appointed Commandant of the London /58 Westminster Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.)
In January 1916, together with her wealthy friend Mrs Adele Gerstley, she opened a Hospital for Officers at 53 Cadogan Square. It was designated a Class A Hospital and had 25 beds. The nursing staff consisted of 3 trained nurses, and 5 full-time and 20 part-time members of the /58 V.A.D. Mrs Gerstley acted as administrator and Miss Hoare as Commandant.
Affiliated with Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, it was one of the few London hospitals that admitted casualties direct from abroad rather than via a military hospital (the others were the Weir Hospital, Mrs F.W. Salisbury-Jones' Hospital for Officers and the Hospital for Officers at 24 Park Street.
The Hospital closed for three weeks in February 1918 for thorough cleaning, opening again in March 1918.
It finally closed in April 1919. During its operational lifetime, some 550 patients had been treated, of whom two had died.