Old Photograph American Hospital Strathpeffer Scotland

Old photograph of the US Naval Hospital in Strathpeffer, Scotland. In 1918 U.S. Navy Base Hospital No.2 was based here. The staff were all recruited from the California Hospital in Los Angeles. They sailed from New York on 1 August 1918 and arrived in Liverpool on 15 August, via Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they joined a convoy. They then came on by train to Scotland. For a few months in 1918 there was also an American Naval Hospital in Leith, Edinburgh. It was located at the Leith Poor House which had earlier in the First World War been requisitioned by the British Army for use as a military hospital. In August 1918, it was handed over to the United States Navy as U.S. Navy Base Hospital No.3. It was one of two U.S. Navy Hospitals in Scotland, the other was at Strathpeffer.



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