This is a list of hospitals used for treatment of military casualties during the Great War that were situated in the County of Leicestershire as it was at the time.
City of Leicester and surrounding districts
- Leicester
- 5th Northern General Hospital
- A unit of the Territorial Force that took over the buildings of the Leicestershire & Rutland County Asylum in August 1914 and also known as the Base Hospital. Greatly expanded during the war to 1,748 beds.
- Glen Parva Depot Hospital
- Part of the facilities of the depot of the Leicestershire Regiment. 36 beds by the end of the war
- North Evington Infirmary
- A local committee agreed to a War Office request to turn the hospital over for military use in February 1915. It came into operation on 6 April and admitted its first patients on 9 May as North Evington War Hospital. Grew to 1,010 beds and by the end of the war had treated over 20,000 patients.
- Leicester Royal Infirmary
- Admitted Belgian and then British wounded from late October 1914 special ward for ophtalmic, ear and throat and dental work on men rejected from enlistment (who could then re-apply to join). More wards opned in spring 1915. 124 beds by the end of the war.
- Trinity Hospital, The Newarke
- Gilroes Isolation Hospital and Sanatorium
- In operation by early 1915. Additional wards spring 1915. 144 beds by the end of the war
- Treated 1003 patients in 1918 alone and ceased military work February 1919.
- St. John’s VAD Hospital, Knighton House
- Opened in December 1914. The home of Mrs & Mrs. Godfrey Stibb. Matron Miss A. A. Pollard, later Mrs. Milvern Walton.
- Billesdon VAD Hospital
- Established in the former Union Workhouse in late 1914.
- Dalby Hall Auxiliary Hospital
- In use by early 1915
- Desford Hall Auxiliary Hospital and Convalescent Home
- In use by early 1915. 66 beds by 1918.
- Knighton House VAD Hospital, Old Evington
- In operation by early 1915. 40 beds by 1917.
- Swain Street Auxiliary Hospital
- Opened in summer 1918 and reached 200 beds by the end of the war.
- Wistow Hall VAD Hospital
- In use by early 1915. 30 beds by 1918.
- Frith Home of Recovery, Groby Road
- For discharged soldiers suffering from shell shock and neurasthenia. Came into operation on 1 February 1918, paid for by the Leicester Disabled Warriors Fund. Miss F. Scott took over as Matron on 2 March 1918 and remained in post for the rest of the war.
- 5th Northern General Hospital
Other areas of the county
- Coalville
- Broom Leys, a large house and gardens off Forest Road owned by Whitwick Colliery Company. Since November 1914 had housed Belgian refugees. Began to operate as Coalville & District VAD Hospital with 75 beds in January 1917, after War Office permission was given in October 1916 and local fundraising began. First patients arrived 22 January. Matron Miss K. S. Crawford.
- Loughborough
- Loughborough General Hospital
- In operation for military use by December 1914. 80 beds by 1917.
- Charnwood Forest Convalescent Homes, between Nanpantan and Woodhouse
- In use by early 1915. 36 beds by 1917.
- Loughborough General Hospital
- Lutterworth
- Wycliffe VAD Hospital
- 20 beds by 1917. Commandant, Mrs. Charles Marriott;
- Ullesthorpe Court VAD Hospital
- Home of Mr. Hugh Goodacre. Established a 20-bed unit in June-July 1915.
- Wycliffe VAD Hospital
- Market Harborough
- Mowsley Sanatorium
- Auxiliary Military Hospital, Park House
- 45 beds by 1917.
- Melton-in-Mowbray
- Lady Beatty’s Sailors’ Hospital, Brooksby Hall
- Home of Admiral Sir David Beatty. 20 beds established in 1915. Matron Jessie Mortlock.
- Stapleford Park VAD Hospital
- 18 beds by 1917. Matron. Hon. Mrs John Gretton.
- Wicklow Lodge VAD Hospital
- 50 beds by 1917.
- Lady Beatty’s Sailors’ Hospital, Brooksby Hall
