part 23 - Driessen archive - Warefield ANZAC Hospital, Middlesex
source: Driessen archive - digital
archivist: Andreas Driessen op ten Bulten
cannot show the archive images, however photo's of them are available, for a small fee [$/euro 2.50 each, payment via paypal]
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Warefield ANZAC Hospital, Middlesex [England]
brief history:
This manor house was owned by the Australian Charles Billyard-Leake living in England who donated it to Australian government.
It became in December 1914 the no. 1 Australian auxiliary hospital for Australian and New Zealanders.
Where upon nurses from Australia started to arrive from the front in June 1915.
After erecting number of huts it could accomodate upto 1000 patients and by the end of WW1 a total of 50.000 soldiers had been
treated and 100 had died there being buried at Anzac cemetery.
Harefield remained a hospital until this day.
Driessen archive:
1) House and Lawn, Australian hospital, Harefield - published by Bates, Park Terrace, Harefield no. 286 - photo postcard. [23-02901a/b]
2) ANZAC hospital, Warefield - view with 2 ladders - photo postcard - written January 1918. [23-02902a/b]
3) Australian hospital, Harefield - view with 3 huts - by G. Bishop - photo postcard - postmarked July 1915. [23-02903a/b]