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unusual facts about field hospital



Harold Pringle

They tried to take him to the local field hospital, and all of his gang (except one who was given immunity for his testimony at their trials) alleged that he died on the way, claiming also that Pringle and the gang leader shot the man after he was dead several times so it would look like a Mafia killing.

Rick Jolly

As Officer Commanding Medical Squadron of the Commando Logistic Regiment Royal Marines, Jolly was Senior Medical Officer of 3 Commando Brigade RM and commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay.

St. Hyacinth's Church, Warsaw

During World War II, the church and monastery served the Polish forces in the Warsaw Uprising as a field hospital.

Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig

Ludwig served initially as the doctor for 3rd Infantry at the Schorndorf garrison, and subsequently as director for the Württemberg field hospital at Smolensk in 1812.


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Aiken's Tavern Historic District

During the American Revolution, British forces under William Howe occupied the village following the September 1777 Battle of Cooch's Bridge, setting up their headquarters in the tavern and establishing a temporary field hospital at Pencader Church.

Berrimah Road

In 1941, during World War II a major field hospital named "Berrimah" was located on the present site of Kormilda College, at the northern end of Berrimah Road.

Covey Crump

Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly, who as a surgeon commander with the Commando Logistic Regiment commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay during the Falklands War has produced his own dictionary of "Jackspeak" in aid of the South Atlantic Medal Association.

Gaetano Perusini

Subsequently his medical knowledge his uncovered and he is transferred to a field hospital at San Floriano del Collio, where he is wounded by a granade on November 28 1915.

Hugh Lett

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served at the Anglo-American Hospital at Wimereux in France from 1914 to 1915, the Belgian field hospital at Veurne in 1915, and then in Egypt.

Jakob Weis

From 4 August 1914 Weis was also pastor to a field hospital, then pastor to 12th Bavarian Infantry Division (known as "the Iron Division" for its bravery and toughness).

Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

Rocky Point Manor in Harrodsburg is reportedly haunted by soldiers that died when the building was used as a Field Hospital during the Civil War.

Xiaotangshan

It also appeared in the news in May 2003 when the government hastily built a 1000-bed field hospital there to deal with an outbreak of SARS.