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- 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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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.
The York Quakers
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A temporary hospital for soldiers wounded in the First World War.
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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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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.