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The Petrograd Red Cross Hospital opened on 25th November 1918 in response to the need for more hospital accommodation for Canadian officers, the Daughters of the Empire Hospital having proved to be too small.

The Hospital was situated in the Hotel Petrograd (previously the St Petersburg Hotel), which had been procured three months earlier by the Office of Works.  The Hotel had been adapted and equipped by the Canadian Red Cross Society as a hospital with 170 beds.  Conveniently located near Oxford Street, the Hospital was a success from the beginning and was considered to be one of the most complete and best equipped military hospital in London.  The Society also equipped a house nearby as accommodation for the Hospital's Nursing Sisters.

The Daughters of the Empire Hospital closed at the end of August 1919, and its remaining patients were transferred to the Petrograd Hospital until that too closed on 16th October 1919.

Present status (March 2010)

The building is now 20 North Audley Street and contains offices and shops.