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Dorset: Forgotten history of D-Day hospital

The story of a how a huge military hospital took shape in the grounds of a country house in Dorset has been largely forgotten.

The hospital was built in 1943 to 1944 to receive casualties from D-Day, using 70 acres of requisitioned land on the Kingston Lacy estate.

Few traces of it remain but, when it was operational, it was the size of a small town with 100 buildings, including wards, operating theatres, laboratories, a post office and even a cinema and dance hall.

When plans were drawn up for the Allied invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, it was realised there was lack of adequate hospital space for the anticipated casualties.


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