part 23 - Driessen archive - st. Luke's Military Hospital, Halifax
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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st. Luke's Military Hospital, Halifax [England]
brief history:
It was established in 1897 as the Halifax union st. Luke's hospital for cases from workhouses.
During WW1 it became a military hospital.
After that it became with some bureaucratic delay the Halifax general hospital.
Driessen archive:
1) st. Luke's Military Hospital & Salterhebble Hill - Halifax - Strand series W.H.S. & S. - photo postcard - postmarked Apr. 1918. [23-01901a/b]