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A hospital ship (HS) is designated for primary function as a medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces or navies of various countries around the world, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. [1] Hospital ships were covered under the Hague Convention X of 1907. [2]
A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces or navies of various countries around the world, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. Firing on a hospital ship is generally considered a war crime.
VI Hospital Group (Provisional), Whitchurch, Flintshire, United Kingdom, assets used to form the 804th Hospital Center [21] VII Hospital Group (Provisional), Newmarket, Cambshire, United Kingdom, assets used to form the 805th Hospital Center [21] 2nd Hospital Center, reorganized and redesignated as 2nd Medical Brigade, 17 September 1992 [154]
2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915. [ 2 ] 3rd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) - Mudros, Greece July 1915 to January 1916; Abbassia, Egypt to October 1916; Abbeville, France from May 1917 until end of war [ 3 ]
American Base Hospital No. 1 was organized in Bellevue Hospital, NYC in September 1916. After the United States entered the war in April 1917 its soldiers, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), began to arrive France later that year. To deal with casualties the AEF would take they set a series of hospitals throughout Europe.
Pages in category "American base hospitals during WWI" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Nurses. Base Hospital No. 36 was organized in April, 1917, at the Detroit College of Medicine, and was mobilized at Detroit, August 23, 1917.The unit remained in training there for two months and sailed from New York City on the SS Orduña, October 27, 1917, arriving in France on November 11, 1917, and at Vittel, its permanent station, on November 17.
By 1916 the military hospitals at home were employing about 8,000 trained nurses with about 126,000 beds, and there were 4,000 nurses abroad with 93,000 beds. By 1918 there were about 80,000 VAD members: 12,000 nurses working in the military hospitals and 60,000 unpaid volunteers working in auxiliary hospitals of various kinds.