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World War 1, Europe England Sheffield, 1916

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1916

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View of Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield

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In the spring of 1915 the South Yorkshire Asylum, Wadsley, was offered to the War Office by the Asylum's Board, for conversion into a war hospital. The asylum patients were transferred to various asylum's, and the institution, now known as the Wharncliffe War Hospital, was handed over to the War Office on the 1st April,1915. A large number of alterations and adaptations were necessary, and these were carried out by the architect of the asylums board, and the institution clerk of works. an x-ray department has been fitted up, and also three operating theatres. all the day rooms and corridors are occupied as wards.

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cwa-org-32-P1900.2086

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War and Conflict
War and Conflict > World War 1

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53.413051075117, -1.498462206481

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