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King George Hospital, Waterloo
King George Hospital opened at the end of May 1915 in the newly built five storey warehouse of the H.M. Stationery Office in Stamford Street, Waterloo. The building was connected to the London Underground by tunnels from Waterloo Station and the wounded were brought in by train. The hospital provided 1650 beds with the warehouse being partitioned into wards and a garden was created on the roof for the patients. In March 1917 capacity was increased to 1,850 beds. The Hospital closed on 15th of June 1919, having treated some 71,000 patients. Today the building is part of Kings College.If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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258741Cpl. John Alexander Brown 18th (London Irish Rifles) Btn. London Regiment (d.24th Nov 1915)
John Brown served with the 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War. He had previously served 28 years as a territorial with the 18th (London Irish Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment.Neville Price
251293Pte James Therien 2nd Pioneer Battalion (d.3rd Jan 1919)
James Therien was born 14 Jan 1893 in Mattawa, Ontario, Canada. He was married with three children. James, himself, was the second of seven children (five female, two male). He volunteered for service and was attested on the 12th of October 1915 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He was treated by 5th Canadian Field Ambulance in Nov 1916 for bronchitis, then admitted to 11th General Hospital 15th of Aug 17 with a gun shot wound to the head. Over the following eight months, he was transferred to King George Hospital in London, England (twice), 16th Canadian General Hospital in Orpington, Kent, England (twice) and 5th Canadian General Hospital in Kirkdale, Lancashire, England before being invalided out to Canada in May 1918.In Jun 1918, he was under treatment for paralysis, monoplegia and headaches in Toronto at the Central Military Convalescent Hospital, Spadina Military Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, then back to Central Military Convalescent Hospital, before dying of an epileptic stroke in Jan 1919. He never returned to Sudbury or Mattawa.
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