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British Military Hospitals were established and operated by the British Army, both at home and overseas during the 19th and 20th centuries, to treat service personnel. They varied in size, purpose and
Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot was opened in 1878 to serve the expanding garrison.
18th-century wards blocks of the former Stoke Military Hospital, Plymouth, linked by a colonnade.
Pavilion layout of the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.
X-ray department at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, 1941 (by Frances Macdonald).
The Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse was a medical facility for naval officers and other ranks at Stonehouse, Plymouth. It was opened in 1760, so becoming the second Royal Naval Hospital in Great Brit
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, in 1897.
The main quadrangle (now flats). The cupola contains a clock of 1776 by Grignion & Son of Covent Garden.
A comparison of the naval hospitals at Haslar (centre and bottom left) and Plymouth (top and bottom right), the former with its wards connected end-to-end, the latter with separate pavilions.
An 18th-century engraving of 'His Majesty's New Royal Hospital Building, near Plymouth'. (N.B. to provide a clearer view, only the floor-plan of the two nearest ward blocks is shown.)