part 23 - Driessen archive - Alder Hey Military (orthopaedic) Hospital [England]
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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Alder Hey Military (orthopaedic) Hospital [England]
brief history:
This hospital started March 1915 as back up for royal national orthopaedic hospital (London).
Treating mainly orthopaedic [limbless] cases.
Was a special 200 bed unit. An additional 100 bed limbless section was at Blackmore.
Driessen archive:
1) view front of building with nurses, staff and recovering soldiers - photo postcard - postmarked November 1917. [23-01601a/b]