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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 159 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | VAD hospital, The Westcliff Hotel, Sandgate Road, Folkestone |
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Summary
Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital, The Westcliff Hotel, Sandgate Road. The hotel was used as a Canadian-run eye and ear hospital with 325 beds, from 20 October 1915 to 20 September 1919.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2232 3571 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1915 AD to 1919 AD (throughout))
Full description
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Voluntary Aid Detatachment hospital, The Westcliff Hotel, Sandgate Road. The hotel was used as a Canadian-run eye and ear hospital with 325 beds, from 20 October 1915 to 20 September 1919. The hospital originally had a plastic surgery department, , this transferred in May 1917 to the Ontario Hospital, Orpington. The building, formerly known as Hotel Majestic, was demolished to make way for re-development.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
