Canadian Military Hospital Kirkdale

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valbenson
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Canadian Military Hospital Kirkdale

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Hi All

Does anyone know exactly where this hospital known as No 5 General Hospital was?

Thanks

Val

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Re: Canadian Military Hospital Kirkdale

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Westminster Road Kirkdale. Val
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valbenson
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Thanks for that Katie, I thought it might have been Kirkdale Homes or Stanley Hospital

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Val

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It was the Kirkdale Homes on Westminster Road used as the 5th Canadian Western Hospital

Burial of a Canadian Soldier from Kirkdale Cemetery

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20/02/1918
PRIVATE
RICHARD HOUGH
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CANADIAN 5TH CANADIAN HOSPITAL,
WESTMINSTER ROAD KIRKDALE
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And a very murky place it was too, walked past it every day home from work, dreadful in bad weather with the wind howling through it.
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