Month: February 2018

When the Bath War hospital first opened in May 1916 it had 500 beds, but due to the ever increasing number of casualties extra beds were put into the existing wards, and by 1917 large marquees were erected in the grounds to accommodate another 600 beds.

In August 1917 the Commandant of the Bath War Hospital organized a competition to encourage and reward the patients and staff who had developed and maintained the gardens around the hospital buildings.