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Rollo became surgeon-general of the Royal Artillery in 1794, and returned to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. [3] There he oversaw the construction of the enlarged Royal Artillery Hospital: the Royal Ordnance Hospital dated from about 1780, and the enlargement was completed in 1806 (the building later became the Connaught Barracks).
Soon afterwards, the Second Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment was posted to Woolwich from Cyprus. In 2012, an artillery link was regained when the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, moved from the St John's Wood Barracks to a new headquarters on the Woolwich site, bringing with them a complement of 120 or thereabouts horses ...
Part of Connaught Mews, built as the Royal Artillery Hospital (central block 1780, wings 1796) In 1780, shortly after the opening of the artillery barracks, the Royal Artillery Hospital was opened close by, just to the east of the barracks. Later known as the Royal Ordnance Hospital, it was one of the first purpose-built military hospitals in ...
The volume of messages in patient portals exploded during COVID, becoming a challenge for health systems to manage. You have a new message in your patient portal — and a new bill for it, too ...
Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley (opened 1863, closed 1958) Royal Hospital Chelsea; Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich (opened 1865, closed 1977) Stoke Military Hospital, Devonport (opened c.1795, closed 1926) Tidworth Military Hospital (opened 1907, closed 1977) Military Hospital Wheatley - now Wheatley Park School [15] [irrelevant citation]
It was overseen by the Inspector General of Ordnance Hospitals, based at the Royal Artillery Hospital, Woolwich, who made recommendation for the appointment and promotion of medical officers, issued them with instructions and guidance, and had oversight of the management of Artillery Hospitals (of which there were eighteen Great Britain in 1810 ...
The Shrapnel Barracks was a British army base providing living accommodation in Woolwich in southeast London from the mid-19th century until the 1960s. Named after Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (who invented the shrapnel shell and was for some years based at the nearby Royal Arsenal), it was situated to the northwest of the modern-day Stadium Road, on the western edge of Woolwich Common ...
By 1930 it was known as the Woolwich and District War Memorial Hospital, then (from 1931) the Woolwich and District Hospital Association War Memorial Hospital and (from 1938) the Memorial Hospital. [2] During the Second World War it became a military hospital (in 1944 it had 137 beds), providing back-up facilities for the nearby Royal Herbert ...