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The No. 3 New Zealand General Hospital was a World War I military hospital established in Codford, Wiltshire, England on the western rim of Salisbury Plain, taking over from a Royal Army Medical Corps hospital. [1] It stood opposite the New Zealand Command Depôt, known as Codford Camp, and was a few miles from Sling Camp. [2]
The Royal Victoria Hospital or Netley Hospital was a large military hospital in Netley, near Southampton, Hampshire, England. Construction started in 1856 at the suggestion of Queen Victoria but its design caused some controversy, chiefly from Florence Nightingale .
Cambridge Military Hospital was a hospital completed in 1879 in Aldershot Garrison, Hampshire, England which served the various British Army camps there. During World War I, the Cambridge Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front. [1]
The № 1 New Zealand General Hospital (1NZGH) was a World War I military hospital in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England. The hospital was established in June 1916, after moving from Abasseyeh in Egypt. [1] It was operated by the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps. It had been the Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers. [2] [3] When ...
In the UK the last of these Military Hospitals were closed in the 1990s, replaced by a single tri-service hospital (which was itself closed in 2007); since then, service personnel (except when deployed on active service) have usually been treated in civilian (NHS) hospitals (some of which have had integrated Ministry of Defence Hospital Units ...
The No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital was a World War I military hospital in Walton-on-Thames, England. The hospital opened in 1915 by requisitioning the essentially 15th century Mount Felix estate, a grand house with gardens, and closed in 1920. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In the 1820s-50s it was the only General (as opposed to regimental) Military Hospital in England, [2] and, until the opening of Netley Hospital in 1863, it was considered the de facto Headquarters of the Army Medical Department. [3] Fort Pitt Hospital closed in the 1920s, since when the surviving buildings have housed a girls' grammar school. [4]
Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum , and after the war it became the psychiatric hospital called Glenside Hospital .