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The nature of the fighting during the Great War led to a huge number of injured soldiers and the existing Military medical facilities in the United Kingdom were soon overwhelmed. A solution had to be found quickly and many civilian hospitals were turned over to military use, a large number of asylums were also converted to military hositals, with the asylum patients being sent home, often to unprepared families. As demand for beds grew, large buildings such as Universities and hotels were transformed into hospitals and wooden huts sprang up in hospital grounds and at army camps to cope with the huge numbers. Additional nursing staff were needed and this was met by a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers. A soldier who was injured in the field would be treated firstly at a Regimental Aid Post in the trenches by the Battalion Medical Officer and his orderlies and stretcher bearers, then moved to an Advance Dressing Station close to the front line manned by members of The Field Ambulance, RAMC. If further treatment was needed he would be moved to a Casualty Clearing Station, a tented camp behind the lines and then if required moved to one of the base hospitals usually by train, the seriously wounded were taken back to Britain by Hospital Ship and onto the relevant hospital for further treatment. With the wide range of serious injuries before faced, hospitals began to specialise in certain types of injury in order to provide the best treatment, with soldiers being sent by train to the revelant hospital. Many large houses and hotels were used as Convalescent Hospitals. Those being treated wore a blue uniform with a red tie, known as "Hospital Blues", once a solider was deemed fit enough to leave convalescence, he would return to one of the Command Depots for the rehabilitative training after which they would be allocated to a battalion, frequently a different battalion or regiment to that in which he had previously served, as his place would have been taken by another man to maintain numbers. Those who did not recover suffiently to returnn to active service were issued with a Silver War Badge, SWB, to wear on their lapel, this signified that they had completed their war service. The badges were individually numbered and numbers are recorded the the medal cards of those who received them. Silver War Badges were also issued to soliders who had completed the length of service they had signed up for, mainly regular soldiers who had served before the war and whose period of service expired before the end of the conflict. A Silver War Badge. One possitive outcome of the horrific injuries suffered, was the advance in medical science. Inovative and often desperate solutions which would not have been considered in peace time were undertaken, those which showed promise were developed further. This section is under construction. If you have any photos, documents or a story relating to a hospital during the Great War please get in touch. Casualty Clearing Stations 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station 2 Casualty Clearing Station 3 Casualty Clearing Station 4 Casualty Clearing Station 5 Casualty Clearing Station 6 Casualty Clearing Station 7 Casualty Clearing Station 8 Casualty Clearing Station 9 Casualty Clearing Station 10 Casualty Clearing Station 11 Casualty Clearing Station 12 Casualty Clearing Station 13 Casualty Clearing Station 14 Casualty Clearing Station 15 Casualty Clearing Station 16 Casualty Clearing Station 17 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Casualty Clearing Station 19 (2/1st Northumbrian) Casualty Clearing Station 20 Casualty Clearing Station 21 Casualty Clearing Station 22 Casualty Clearing Station 23 Casualty Clearing Station 24 Casualty Clearing Station 25 Casualty Clearing Station 26 Casualty Clearing Station 27 Casualty Clearing Station 28 Casualty Clearing Station 29 Casualty Clearing Station 30 Casualty Clearing Station 31 Casualty Clearing Station 32 Casualty Clearing Station 33 Casualty Clearing Station 34 Casualty Clearing Station 35 Casualty Clearing Station 36 Casualty Clearing Station 37 Casualty Clearing Station 38 Casualty Clearing Station 39 Casualty Clearing Station 40 Casualty Clearing Station 41 Casualty Clearing Station 42 Casualty Clearing Station 43 Casualty Clearing Station 44 Casualty Clearing Station 45 Casualty Clearing Station 46 Casualty Clearing Station 47 Casualty Clearing Station 48 Casualty Clearing Statio 49 Casualty Clearing Station 50 Casualty Clearing Station 51 (Highland) Casualty Clearing Station 52 Casualty Clearing Station 53 (North Midland) Casualty Clearing Station 54 (1/2nd London) Casualty Clearing Station 55 Casualty Clearing Station 56 (South Midland) Casualty Clearing Station 57 Casualty Clearing Station 58 (West Riding) Casualty Clearing Station 59 Casualty Clearing Station 60 Casualty Clearing Station 61 (South Midland) Casualty Clearing Station 62 (1/2nd London) Casualty Clearing Station 63 (1/1st London)Casualty Clearing Station 64 Casualty Clearing Station Base Hospitals in France and Flanders No 1 British Red Cross Hospital (The Duchess of Westminster's Hospital) No 1 General Hospital, Le Havre & Etretat. No 1 Australian General Hospital, Rouen No 1 Stationary Hospital, Le Mans & Rouen No 1 South Africa Hospital, Abbeville No 2 British Red Cross Hospital, Rouen No 2 General Hospital, Le Havre No 2 Australian General Hospital, Wimereux & Rouen No 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Treport No 2 Stationary Hospital, Nantes & Outreau & Abbeville No 3 British Red Cross Hospital, (The Friends Ambulance Hospital) Abbeville No 3 General Hospital, Rouen & St Nazaire & Le Treport & Rouderbirken No 3 Australian General Hospital, Abbeville No 3 Canadian General Hospital, Dannes-Camiers No 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen & Rotterdam No 4 British Red Cross Hospital, (Sir Henry Norman's Hospital) Wimereux No 4 General Hospital, St Nazaire & Versailles & Camiers & Dunkerque No 4 Stationary Hospital, Arques & Longuenesse No 5 British Red Cross Hospital (Lady Hadfield's Hospital), Wimereux No 5 British Red Cross Hospital, A Section (2nd Stationary Annexe) Dieppe No 5 British Red Cross Hospital, B Section (2nd Stationary Annexe) Abbeville No 5 General Hospital, Rouen & Angiens No 5 Stationary Hospital, Le Mans No 6 British Red Cross Hospital, (Liverpool Merchants Hospital) Paris-Plage & Etaples & Trouville No 6 General Hospital, Rouen No 6 Stationary Hospital, Le Havre & Frevent & Fillievres & Antwerp No 7 British Red Cross Hospital (Allied Forces Base Hospital), Hotel Christol, Boulogne No 7 General Hospital (Malassises Hospital), Amiens & St Omer & Boulogne No. 7 Canadian General Hospital Etaples No.7 Stationary HospitalBoulogne No 8 British Red Cross Hospital ( Baltic & Corn Exchange Hospital), Calais & Paris-Plage & Boulogne No 8 General Hospital, Rouen No 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux No 9 British Red Cross Hospital (The Duchess of Sutherlands Hospital), Calais & Longuenesse & Hazebrouck & Roubaix No 9 General Hospital, Nantes & Rouen No 9 Stationary Hospital, St Nazaire & Le Havre & Rouen No 10 British Red Cross Hospital (The Lady Murray's Hospital), Le Treport No 10 General Hospital, St Nazaire & Rouen No 10 Stationary Hospital, No 11 General Hospital, Boulogne & Camiers No 11 Stationary Hospital, Rouen No 12 General Hospital, Rouen No 12 Stationary Hospital, Rouen & St Pol No 13 General Hospital, Boulogne No 13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne No 14 General Hospital, Wimereux No 14 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux & Boulogne No 16 General Hospital, Le Treport No 18 General Hospital, Camiers No 20 General Hospital, Camiers No 22 General Hospital, Camiers No 23 General Hospital, Etaples No 24 General Hospital, Etaples No 25 General Hospital ( Meerut British General Hospital), Dammes-Camiers & Hardelot & Wiesdorf No 25 Stationary Hospital, Rouen No 26 General Hospital, Etaples No 28 General Hospital, Etaples No 32 Stationary Hospital (Australian Voluntary Hospital), St Nazaire & Wimereux No 35 General Hospital (Rawalpindi British General Hospital), Calais No 38 Stationary Hospital, Calais No 39 General Hospital, Le Havre No 39 Stationary Hospital, Aire & Desvres & Fort Gassin & Ascq No 40 Stationary Hospital, Harfleur No 41 Stationary Hospital, Gailly No 42 Stationary Hospital, Amiens & Camiers & Nancy No 46 Stationary Hospital (Etaples Isolation Hospital), Etaples No 47 General Hospital, Le Treport No 52 Stationary Hospital (Havre Isolation Hospital), Le Havre No 53 General Hospital (London General Hospital), Wimereux No 54 General Hospital (London General Hospital), Wimereux No 55 General Hospital (Eastern General Hospital), Wimereux No 56 General Hospital (Southern General Hospital), Etaples No 57 General Hospital (Western General Hospital), Marseilles No 58 General Hospital (Scottish General Hospital), St Omer & Rouen Apr No 59 General Hospital (Northern General Hospital), St Omer & Rouen No 72 General Hospital, Trouville No 73 General Hospital, Trouville No 74 General Hospital, Trouville No 81 General Hospital, Marseilles No 83 General Hospital, Boulogne Anglo-Belge BRCS Hospital (British Farmers Hospital), Calais BRCS Auxiliary Hospital (Hotel Sussex), Wimereux BRCS Detention Hospital, Gournay-en-Bray BRCS Detention Hospital, Forges-les-Eaux Bruges Military Hospital, Bruges Calais Isolation Hospital, Calais Charmes Detention Hospital, Charmes Dieppe Detention Hospital, Dieppe Hesdin Detention Hospital, Hesdin Marseilles Stationary Hospital, Marseilles Paris Detention Hospital, Paris Paris Stationary Hospital, Paris St Johns Ambulance Brigade Hospital, Etaples BRCS No 1 Hospital (Hotel Astoria) Paris Hertford British Hospital, Paris Hospital Ships HMHS Andania HMHS Astruias HMHS Caris Castle HMHS Neuralia HMHS Rewa HMHS St Andrew HMHS St. Denis HMHS St Patrick Hospitals in Britain 1st Eastern General Hospital Cambridge 2nd Eastern General Hospital Brighton 1st London General Hospital Camberwell 2nd London General Hospital Chelsea 3rd London General Hospital Wandsworth 4th London General Hospital Denmark Hill 5th London General Hospital St Thomas's 1st Northern General Hospital Newcastle 2nd Northern General Hospital Leeds 3rd Northern General Hospital Sheffield 4th Northern General Hospital Lincoln 5th Northern General Hospital Leicester 1st Scottish General Hospital Aberdeen 2nd Scottish General Hospital Edinburgh 3rd Scottish General Hospital Glasgow 4th Scottish General Hospital Stobhill 1st Southern General Hospital Birmingham 2nd Southern General Hospital, Bristol 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth 5th Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth 2/1st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerly 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford 1st Birmingham War Hospital 2nd Birmingham War Hospital 4th Canadian General Hospital, Park Prewett, Hampshire Abram Peel Hospital, Bradford Addington Park War Hospital, Croydon Alder Hey Hospital Alnwick Acute Hospital Ashurst War Hospital, Littlemore, Oxford Barnwell Hospital, near Cambridge Beaufort War Hospital Belfast War Hospital Birtles Hospital, Chelford Blandford Camp Military Hospital Boscombe Hospital, Hampshire Brighton Grove Hospital, Newcastle Cannock Chase Military Hospital Catterick Camp Military Hospital Central Hospital, Lichfield Barracks City of London Military Hospital, Homerton Charterhouse Military Hospital, London Cherryhinton Chiseldon Military Hospital Clipstone Camp Military Hospital Codford Military Hospital Connaught Hospital, Aldershot Countess of Suffolk hospital, Malmesbury County of Middlesex War Hospital Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh Cromarty Military Hospital Duke of Connaught's Auxiliary Hospital, Bray, Wicklow Dunblane War Hospital. Dykebar War Hospital, Paisley East Leeds War Hospital, Leeds Union Infirmary East Preston Military Hospital Edenhall East of Scotland Limbless Hospital, Musselburgh Edinburgh War Hospital, Bangour, Edinburgh Ewell (County of London) War Hospital, Epsom Fargo Military Hospital Fovant Military Hospital Frodsham Auxiliary Military Hospital, Cheshire Fulham Military Hopital Gadebridge Hospital, Hemel Hempsted Gateshead War Hospital, Stannington Glen Lomond War Hospital, Fife Grantham Military Hospital Graylingwell War Hospital Hampstead Military Hospital Haxely Down Camp, Winchester Hilsea Military Hospital Horton (County of London) War Hospital Huddersfield War Hospital King George V Hospital, Dublin Kinmel Park Military Hospital Lancaster House Auxiliary Hospital, Manchester Latchmere, Ham Common Lord Derby War Hospital. Warrington Magdalen Camp Military Hospital Malden Hospital Manor (County of London) War Hospital Maudsley Neurological Hospital Murthly War Hospital, Perth Nannau Officers' Hospital, Dolgelly National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, Westmoreland Street, London National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queens Sq, London. Nell Lane Military Hospital, Didsbury New Bridge St Hospital, Manchester Northumberland War Hospital, Gosforth Norwich & Norfolk Hospital Norfolk War Hospital Northamptonshire War Hospital Notts County War Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent Oswestry Military Hospital Oulton Hall Hospital for Officers Paddington Military Hospital Palace Green Special Hospital for Officers, Kensington, London Portobello Military Hospital, Dublin Prees Heath Military Hospital Prince of Wales Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Cardiff Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Erskine House, Glasgow Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley. Quarry Brook House, Moss Side. Red Cross Military Hospital, Maghull Robroyston War Hospital Richmond War Hospital, Dublin. Ripon Camp Military Hospital Rochester Row Military Hospital Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Great Portland St, London Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth Royal Naval Hospital Haslar Royal Victoria Boscombe Hospital Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley Southampton St Georges Hospital, Hyde Park Corner Seale Haye Neurological Hospita, Newton Abbot. Shepherds Bush Military Orthopaedic Hospital Shaffords Hospital Sobroan Barracks Military Hospital, Colchester Spike Island Hospital Springfield War Hospital Stobhill, Glasgow Sutton Veny Military Hospital Swanage Military Hospital The Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, Maida Vale. Thetford Military Hospital Tooting Grove Hospital Ulster Volunteer Force Hospital, Belfast University College Hospital, London VAD Hospital, Chard Wareham Military Hospital Warlingham Hospital West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Welbeck St, London. Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital Wharncliffe War Hospital Whittingham Military Hospital, Lancashire Wool, Bovington Camp Convalescent Hospitals No 6 Convalescent Depot, Etapes, France No 7 Convalescent Depot No 137 Convalescent Depot Canadian Convalescent Hospital Bear Wood Wokingham Berkshire Holywood, Belfast King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital, Clifton Park, Blackpool Orchard Hospital, Dartford Queen Mary's Convalescent Hospital, Roehampton Summerdown Camp, Eastbourne West Cliffe Hotel Hythe, Hants Woodcote Park, Epsom Command Depots Alnwick, Machine Gun Corps & Northern Command Ampthill, Eastern Command Ballyvonare , Irish Command Catterick (Hipswell), Royal Artillery & Tank Corps Catterick (Scotton), Western Command Codford , New Zealand forces Eastbourne, Cavalry Command Heaton Park, Western Command Knowsley Park , Western & Southern Command Nigg,Scottish Command Perham Down, Southern Command and Newfoundland Regiment Perham Down RND Depot, Royal Naval Division and Channel Island troops Randalstown, Irish Command, ASC & RAMC Ripon North, Northern Command Ripon South, Royal Artillery & Royal Air Force Shoreham (London District) Guards Regiments and London TF Shoreham (Eastern Command) Eastern Command & South African troops Sutton Coldfield, Southern Command Thetford, Royal Engineers & Remounts & London District Tipperary, Irish Command, Eastern Command & Royal Artillery Hospitals in Australia No 4 Australian General Hospital, Randwick Hospitals in Egypt Albassia Hospital, Cairo Kas EL Ainy Hospital Hospitals in India Ramsay Hospital This list is incomplete, if you know of any hospitals which are not listed please let us know. 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