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Special Hospital listings from the CEFSG Forum Posting:

Special hospitals
Granville special hospital (orthopaedic): Ramsgate - Buxton
Westcliffe eye and ear hospital : Folkestone
Special hospital (tubercular) : Lenham
Special hospital (venereal) : Witley
Special hospital (venereal) : Etchinghill
Petrograd Red Cross hospital for officers : Petrograd hotel, London
Hospital for officers Hyde Park place : London
Buxton Red Cross Hospital : Buxton

Convalescent hospitals
Woodcote Park convalescent Hospital : Epsom
Princess Patricia Red Cross convalescent hospital : Ramsgate - Bexhill
Bearwood convalescent hospital : Wokingham
Bromley convalescent hospital : Bromley
Hillingdon house Canadian convalescent hospital - Uxbridge
Monks Horton convalescent hospital : Monks, Horton
King's Red cross hospital convalescent hospital : Bushey park
Officer's convalescent hospital : Matlock, Bath

Miscellaneous hospitals (beds capacity from 1000 to 3250)
Military hospital Basingstoke : Basingstoke
Military hospital Kirkdale, Liverpool
Kitchener military hospital : Brighton
Shorncliffe military hospital : Shorncliffe
Moore Barracks military hospital : Shorncliffe
Bramshott military hospital : Bramshott
Military hospital Eastbourne : Eastbourne
Duchess of Connaught's Canadian red Cross Hospital : Taplow (reorganized as 5 C.G.H. September 1917)
Ontario military hospital : Orpington (reorganized as 16 C.G.H. Sept 1917)

Not well known were the hospitals under the responsibility of the Canadian Forestry Corps with their beds capacity
In UK
Beech Hill Englefield green (75)
Sunningdale (20)
In France
Lajoux Jura (150)
Alençon (50)
Geradmer (50)
Conches (35)
Lesperon (25)
Parentisen-Born (12)

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Canadian Special Hospital

Canadian Red Cross Special Hospital, Buxton
1916/02/01-1917/07/31
1917/08/01-1919/03/31

Granville Canadian Special Hospital
1915/10/01-1917/12/31
1918/01/01-1919/06/30

Canadian Special Hospital, Witley
1917/10/01-1919/03/31

Canadian Special Hospital, Lenham
1917/11/01-1919/05/31

Granville Canadian Special Hospital Note: using the key word 'Canadian Special Hospital' keeps the reference for Granville for the period 1915/10/01-1917/12/31 hidden. Strange.
1918/01/01-1919/06/30

Canadian Convalescent Hospital

Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Monks Horton, Kent
1917/04/09-1918/07/31

Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Bear Wood, Workingham
1915/09/20-1919/05/31

Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Woodcote Park, Epsom
1916/10/03-1919/05/31

Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Uxbridge, Bexhill
1915/09/21-1918/09/30

Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Bromley
1915/09/01-1918/09/30

Canadian Convalescent Officers' Hospital - Matlock, Bath
1917/07/01-1919/05/31

Canadian Red Cross Hospital

15th Canadian Field Hospital [Duchess of Connaught Red Cross Hospital, Taplow]
1915/07/01-1919/05/31

Canadian Red Cross Special Hospital, Buxton
1916/02/01-1917/07/31
1917/08/01-1919/03/31

Canadian Red Cross Officers' Hospital, London
1916/05/08-1919/09/30

Princess Patricia's Canadian Red Cross Hospital
1917/05/01-1919/02/28

King's Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Bushey Park
1916/11/01-1919/07/14

Granville Canadian Special Hospital
1915/10/01-1917/12/31
1918/01/01-1919/06/30

Westcliffe Eye and Ear Hospital

Westcliffe Eye and Ear Hospital, Folkestone
1917/04/02-1919/04/30

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