Great War Centenary
Contents
- Introduction
- History
- Military
- Military Depots
- Military Headquarters
- Coastal Defences
- Anti-aircraft Batteries
- Pillboxes
- Drill Halls
- Training Areas and Camps
- Rifle Ranges
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Internment Camps
- Sound Mirrors
- Airship Bases
- Airfields
- Seaplane Bases
- Naval Establishments
- Naval Vessels
- Caring for Casualties
- Military Hospitals
- Royal Naval Hospitals
- Army Hospitals
- Royal Air Force Hospitals
- Territorial Force Hospitals
- Southern General Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Eastern General Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Scottish General Hospitals
- London General Hospitals
- Canadian Convalescent Hospital
- New Zealand General Hospital No 1
- War Hospitals
- Voluntary Support
- Auxiliary Hospitals
- War Hospital Supply Depots
- Supporting the War Effort
- Manufacturing
- Munitions
- National Munitions Factories
- Airships and Aircraft
- Shipyards
- Mining
- North Wales Manganese Mines
- State Management Scheme
- Hostilities and incidents on British soil
- Aerial
- Naval
- Army
- Easter Rising
- Memorials
- National Memorials
- National Memorial Arboretum
- Naval Memorials
- Regimental and Battalion Memorials
- Divisional Memorials
- War Memorials
- Battlefield Crosses
- Animals in War
- Drinking Troughs
- Memorial Benches
- Poppies
- Ulster Murals
- Memorial Hospitals
- Memorial Halls
- Memorial Parks and Gardens
- Memorial Clock Towers
- Memorial Arches
- Memorial Windows
- Thankful Villages
- Statues
- Centenary Memorials
- War Cemeteries
- Centenary Commemorations
- Events
- Reconstructions
- Commemorative Installations
- Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
- Weeping Window
- Wave
- Miscellany
- Tanks, trains, guns, shells and mines
- Songs and Entertainment
- Private air raid shelter
- Belgian Refugees
- Refugee billets
- Token of thanks and memorials
- Other
- War Poetry and Authors
- Hedd Wyn
- Francis Ledwidge
- Wilfred Owen
- Rupert Brooke
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Charles Sorley
- Edward Thomas
- Laurence Binyon
- JRR Tolkien
- Links
Territorial Force Hospitals
Experience of managing casualties in the Boer War showed a need to plan for the assessment, evacuation and treatment of large numbers of casualties by train and boat. Within a fortnight of the Declaration of War there would be 12000 beds available, 20 ambulance trains and 3 converted hospital ships with more to follow.
The Haldane Reforms of 1907 had identified that further military hospital capacity would be required in the event of a European war. Twenty three Territorial Force units were established on a regional basis each trained to open and operate a 520 bed hospital. Buildings were identified and agreement in place for the hospitals to be fully staffed and operating within weeks of the declaration of war.
Further buildings were later requisitioned including workhouses and university halls.
Southern General Hospital
Birmingham's Military Hospitals
Contingency planning in 1909 by the Territorial Force envisaged the establishment of the Southern General Hospital No 1 as a 570 bed hospital in the Great Hall and other buildings in Birmingham University. This was operational in September 1914. Capacity in the city increased to over 8800 beds with the use of the city's asylums, other hospitals and the Colmore Road (King's Heath) and Raddlebarn (Selly Park) schools. Huts and tents were used to augment capacity.
Birmingham University
Monyhull Colony Wordsley Infirmary, Stourbridge
Bristol's Military Hospitals
The Southern General Hospital No 2 was intended to provide 520 beds at the Bristol Royal Infirmary but due to civilian demand opened with 260 beds and a further 260 at the new infirmary at Southmead Workhouse. More ward space was created using temporary buildings and tents at Southmead.
Bristol Royal Infirmary Southmead
Oxford's Military Hospital
Southern General Hospital No 3 was headquartered in the Examination Schools with a number of buildings on the High Street including University College's Durham and Radcliffe Buildings, the Masonic Buildings and the Town Hall.The Radcliffe Infirmary and Cowley Road Workhouse(now demolished) were used and New College sheltered neurological patients in tents in the grounds.
Examination Schools University College
Masonic Buildings Town Hall
New College Radcliffe Infirmary
Plymouth's Military Hospital
Southern General Hospital No 4 was based in the Salisbury Road Schools and adjacent Baptist Church. The hospital provided over 500 beds with an operating room and X-ray facilities. The first 102 casualties would arrive within a fortnight of the declaration of war.
Portsmouth's Military Hospitals
Southern General Hospital No 5 was based in the Girl's Secondary in Fawcett Road with further space in the Royal Portsmouth Hospital(demolished)and Milton Infirmary (St Mary's).
Fawcett Road Milton Infirmary
Northern General Hospital
Newcastle's Military Hospitals
The university buildings of Armstrong College formed the base for Northern General Hospital No 1 with additional wards and facilities provided by the Royal Victoria Infirmary on an adjacent site.
Armstrong College Royal Victoria Infirmary
Leeds Military Hospitals
The new City of Leeds Training College in Beckett Park opened in June 1913 and a little over a year later was taken over as Northern General Hospital No 2 with 600 beds. Together with the Leeds Workhouse and temporary huts in the grounds, capacity peaked in 1918 at 3200 beds.
Leeds Training College
Leeds Union Workhouse
Sheffield's Military Hospitals
Headquartered in the Collegiate Hall, Northern General Hospital No 3 used wards in existing civilian hospitals, the workhouse (renamed as the Northern General Hospital) and schools.
Collegiate Hall
Royal Infirmary Winter Street Hospital
Northern General Hospital (former workhouse)
Western Road School Lydgate Lane School
Endcliffe Hall, Territorial Regiment Barracks
Lincoln's Military Hospitals
Northern General Hospital No 4 was based at the Wragby Road Grammar School with hutted accommodation constructed in the grounds.
Wragby Road
Leicester's Military Hospitals
Northern General Hospital No 5 was established in the Leicester and Rutland Lunatic Asylum with a further site at the North Evington Poor Law Infirmary.
Leicester and Rutland Lunatic Asylum
North Evington Poor Law Infirmary
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