Cambridge Military Hospital

Cambridge Military Hospital
Cambridge Military Hospital, 1891.
Active1879–1996
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeMedical Care
RoleHospital
Garrison/HQAldershot, Hampshire

51°15′11″N 0°45′25″W / 51.253°N 0.757°W / 51.253; -0.757 Cambridge Military Hospital was a hospital completed in 1879 in Aldershot Garrison, Hampshire, England which served the various British Army camps there. During World War I, the Cambridge Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front.[1] It was also the first place where plastic surgery was performed in the British Empire under Harold Gillies. It is now the residential estate Gun Hill Park.

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