{"id":1289,"date":"2014-07-08T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2014-07-16T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:20:18","slug":"does-anyone-recognise-the-world-war-1-hospital-in-this-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Does anyone recognise the World War 1 Hospital in this photo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The photo is part of the St Fagans National History Museum WW1 collection which is currently being digitised. It was given to St Fagans in the 1990ies but its location is unknown. It may not be a Cardiff hospital but if you recognise it please get in touch. Could it be Whitchurch?<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a>

Where is this photo taken?<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to Elen Phillips, Principal Curator: Contemporary & Community History at St Fagans,\u00a0 for the photo and information.<\/p>\n

I came across this website which gives some further information about\u00a0 hospitals used during WW1:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.1914-1918.net\/hospitals_uk.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

The military hospitals at home<\/p>\n

The flow of casualties from the various theatres of war soon overwhelmed the existing medical facilities in the United Kingdom, just as it did the recently established bases in France and Flanders. Many civilian hospitals and large buildings were turned over to military use. This listing is by no means complete.<\/p>\n

Wales<\/p>\n

3rd Western General<\/strong>. A TF General Hospital in Cardiff. 38 officers and 2626 other ranks. The Cardiff Infirmary became headquarters to the 3rd Western General Military Hospital, overseeing all the other military hospitals in the region.
\nWelsh Metropolitan War Hospital<\/strong>. Formerly the Cardiff City Asylum at Whitchurch. 61 officers and 839 other ranks.
\n– partly used for mental patients (14 officers and 416 ORs) from September 1917 to December 1919.
\nKinmel Park Camp<\/strong> (Rhyl). A hospital established at an army base. 890 beds.
\n– a specialist venereal disease unit opened here after the Armistice
\nPrince of Wales Hospital<\/strong> for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Cardiff. 66 beds for men from Wales, Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire.
\nOfficers’ neurological hospital<\/strong>, Nannau, Dolgelly. Established by June 1918.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photo is part of the St Fagans National History Museum WW1 collection which is currently being digitised. It was given to St Fagans in the 1990ies but its location is unknown. It may not be a Cardiff hospital but if you recognise it please get in touch. Could it be Whitchurch? Thanks to Elen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[80,16],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-the-war-years","tag-photos","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}