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4 unusual facts about Naval Hospital


Clifton Sprague

In March 1955, Sprague fell ill of a weak heart and was moved to the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.

Joseph Benjamin Tofflemire

Joseph Benjamin Franklin Tofflemire (1896 - 1983) was a Naval Hospital apprentice in both World War I and World War II.

Juan Pan Guerrero

Juan Pan Guerrero was born on December 10, 1949, at the United States Naval Hospital, in Maturana Hill, Saipan.

Matthew L. Nathan

Nathan then served as the Internal Medicine Dept Head at Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Hardy Town, Gibraltar

The huts soon became a shanty town, situated out of range of the Spanish land batteries at a spot near the southern end of the peninsula, between the Naval Hospital and the South Barracks on the road leading to Europa Point (now Europa Road).


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Arnos Vale Cemetery

There are 149 servicemen and women from World War II buried here, all in scattered graves apart from a group in a plot in the upper part of the cemetery who were from the Naval Hospital in Barrow Gurney.

Bellavista District

On the east, the district ends at the Santiago Tábara Naval Hospital or the western perimeter of the National University of San Marcos, where the Lima Province (or more specifically, the Lima District) begins

Ben Hebard Fuller

Major General Fuller died on June 8, 1937, aged 67, at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C., and was buried on June 11, 1937 in the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis, Maryland, beside the grave of his son, Captain Edward C. Fuller of the 6th Marines, who was killed in action in the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I.

Ellen Buckley

She taught at the Mercy as well as the Hackley Hospital School of Nursing and was a director at the School of Nursing of the St. Anthony Hospital in Denver and lead the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego.

Frederic John Walker

Walker suffered a cerebral thrombosis on 7 July 1944 and died two days later at the Naval Hospital at Seaforth, Merseyside aged 48; his death was attributed to overwork and exhaustion.

Henry A. Commiskey, Sr.

Following hospitalization at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, 1stLt Commiskey served at the Naval Air Rocket Test Station, Lake Denmark, Morris County, New Jersey.

James R. Tryon

After serving briefly at the United States Naval Hospital in New York City, Tryon spent the last two years of the Civil War at Pensacola, Florida, caring for sick and wounded officers and men of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

James Shepherd Freeman

James Shepherd Freeman (April 30, 1900 in Jasper, AL – August 7, 1962 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD) was a World War II Admiral in the United States Navy and the son of James Stanley Freeman.

Leo Zulueta

Leo Zulueta was born in 1952 in a naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

Middleton Stuart Elliott

During World War I, he commanded the Naval Hospital and Supply Depot at Cañacao Bay, Philippines.

New College School

Sir Richard Goodwin Keats (1757–1834): admiral, Governor of the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich, and mentor to Nelson and King William IV

RNH Bighi

RNH Bighi, also known as Bighi Hospital, was a major naval hospital located in the small town of Kalkara on the island of Malta.

Robert L. Rock

He served in the United States Navy during World War II as a hospital corpsman at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California.

Ruth Agatha Houghton

Subsequent assignments included Naval Hospital, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, Naval Hospital, Puget Sound, Naval Hospital, Corona, CA.

Saifullah Paracha

:"Paracha's lawyer said that his client complained that several simple diagnostic examinations were not performed adequately by doctors at Guantanamo Naval Hospital. Gaillard Hunt, Paracha's lawyer, said that his client has had his hands and feet shackled when being examined at the base hospital and that several attempts to perform an electrocardiogram, or EKG, proved difficult for base medical staff."

Vanbrugh Castle

The castle was designed and built after Vanbrugh had been the architect of the baroque houses at Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, and shortly after Vanbrugh succeeded his architectural mentor Christopher Wren as Surveyor to the Royal Naval Hospital in 1716.

William Swift

Admiral Swift died at the Naval Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island on June 30, 1919, and was buried in his home town of Richfield Springs, New York.

Winnie Gibson

In May 1934 she was assigned as Operating Room Supervisor and Anesthetist at Naval Hospital, New York City, and was subsequently assigned to the same duties at Quantico, Virginia.