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Grangethorpe Military Hospital, Manchester    Grangethorpe Military Hospital opened in November 1917, with the the orthopaedic department at Ducie Avenue School moving to the larger hsopital, which was located at Grangethorpe on the southerly edge of the Platt Hall estate, Manchester. It was the home of Herbert Smith-Carrington, a director of the Whitworth-Armstrong engineering company, who sold the property to the Red Cross in early 1917, the property was intended for use as a long-term nursing home for badly injured service-men, but the Ministry of War was in need of an orthopaedic hospital in the Manchester area and requested to use the 11 acre grounds. Six wards for Other Ranks, an operating theatre, a gymnasium, accommodation for nursing staff and an administrative block were built, connected by covered walkways. Matron and the senior medical staff had quarters in the mansion, which also accommodated wards for officers. Grangethorpe Hospital lead the way in pioneering work on the reconstruction of damaged limb nerves, tendon transplants and bone grafts, with a team of surgeons lead by Captain Platt, R.A.M.C. The hospital remained opened until 1929 by which time over 15,000 patients had received treatment. Today the site is home to the Manchester High School for Girls. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. We are currently building a database of patients treated in this hospital, if you know of anyone who was treated here, please enter their details via this form Patient Reports. (This section is under construction) No information has been added for this hospital, please check back later. Those known to have worked or been treated at Grangethorpe Military Hospital, Manchester during the Great War 1914-1918. Lloyd Robert Griffth. 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There are:0 items tagged Grangethorpe Military Hospital, Manchester available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. 255651 Robert Griffth Lloyd 16th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers Robert Lloyd enlisted at Litherland on the 29th of January 1917 and was posted to the 15th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers on the 14th of June 1917 then transferred to 16th Battalion on the 30th of July 1917. He was reported missing on the 18th of September 1918 and later confirmed as POW in Germany. On release he was admitted to to 64 CCS on the 26th of December 1918 suffering from a gunshot wound to his right thigh. He was repatriated to England on the 31st of December 1918 and admitted to Military Hospital Lewisham and later Grangethorpe Military Hospital Manchester. He was discharged from the military on the 24th of February 1920 as no longer fit for military service. 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