Auxiliary Hospital for Officers
Shirley Park Golf Clubhouse, 194 Addiscombe Road,
Croydon, Surrey CR0 7LB
Croydon, Surrey CR0 7LB
Medical dates:
Medical character:
Convaescent (military)
In 1916 the company owning the Shirley Park Golf Course, of which Mr D.G. Collins was Chairman, briefly lent the Clubhouse to the British Red Cross for use as an auxiliary military hospital.
The auxiliary hospital opened on 9th January 1916 and closed on 10th April the same year.
Present status (July 2010)
The building still functions as the Clubhouse for the Shirley Park Golf Club.
The Shirley Park Golf Clubhouse.
(Authors unstated) 1921 Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England on Voluntary Aid rendered to the Sick and Wounded at Home and Abroad and to Prisoners of War, 1914-1919. London, HMSO. (Reprinted in facsimilie 2009. The Naval and Military Press Ltd in association with the Imperial War Museum.)
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