Clifford Street Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital

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Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Clifford Street Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital

Parallel form(s) of name

  • Clifford Street Auxiliary Military Hospital; Clifford Street VAD Hospital

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  • Clifford Street Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital; 1915-1919

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    Dates of existence

    1915-1919

    History

    On the 1st of January 1915, Quakers in York turned their meeting house in Clifford Street into a hospital for wounded soldiers. Previously it was used as temporary home for Belgian refugees who had fled their home country. The hospital was established to ease the shortage of hospitals in York and run jointly by the St John Ambulance Association and Voluntary Aid Detachment.
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    A temporary hospital for soldiers wounded in the First World War.

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    General context

    On the 1st of January 1915, Quakers in York turned their meeting house in Clifford Street into a hospital for wounded soldiers. Previously it was used as temporary home for Belgian refugees who had fled their home country. The hospital was established to ease the shortage of hospitals in York and run jointly by the St John Ambulance Association and Voluntary Aid Detachment.

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    Authority record identifier

    GB0192-268

    Institution identifier

    GB0192

    Rules and/or conventions used

    International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa

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        Sources

        Rubinstein, D. 1999. York Friends and the Great War, p. 6

        York in the First World War Trail. Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past.

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