This is a list of hospitals used for treatment of military casualties during the Great War that were situated in the County of Nottinghamshire as it was at the time.
Civilian hospitals to which military casualties were admitted
- Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary (became Bagthorpe Military Hospital)
- Nottingham General Hospital
- The Cedars and Woodthorpe Lodge, Woodthorpe, a convalescent unit annexe to the General Hospital since 1897
Military hospitals
- Clipstone Camp (near Mansfield) 356 beds
Auxiliary hospitals, annexes and minor hospitals
- Nottingham
- The Bayley Red Cross Hospital, Derby Road
- One of the first three auxiliary hospitals in England to be accepted by the War Office for admission of military patients. The house was lent, and the hospital equipped, by Sir Dennis Bayley and Miss Bayley of Lenton Abbey. On 21 October 1914 it admited the first Belgian wounded from Antwerp. Miss Lilian Birkin was commandant throughout its four years of service, during which it admitted more than 1,600 casualties. Closed 1 March 1919.
- The Pavilion VAD Hospital, Trent Bridge cricket ground
- Opened on 25 January 1915. Grew to 150 beds and admitted more than 3,490 casualties. Its commandant was Lady Ellen Hervey Bruce.
- Arnot Hill Red Cross Hospital, Daybrook
- Opened on 26 January 1915. It commandant was Mrs Birkin. Closed on 16 April 1919, having admitted more than 2,230 casualties.
- Mapperley Hall Hospital
- Opened on 11 October 1916. It grew to 103 beds. Commandant was Lady Charles Bentinck. The hospital benefitted from a substantial gift from the tobacco industrialist John Player, which met most of its operatng expenses. The hospital admitted more than 1,250 casualties.
- Bowden VAD Hospital, Mapperley Park
- A private house given by Sir Frank and Lady Bowden. Commandant was Mrs Powell. The hospital grew to 60 beds. Two of the Bowden’s daughters worked at the hospital
- West Bridgford VAD Hospital, Musters Road, Nottingham (sometimes seen as Musters Road Military Hospital)
- School building. Commandant Miss Heymann. Closed 14 April 1919.
- Albert Hall Institute, Derby Road
- Taken over in October 1916 after long being in use as a place of education and entertainment for soldiers. First admissions in early January 1917.
- Carrington Council Schools, Hucknall Road. Became Carrington Military Hospital in spring 1915.
- Sycamore Road Schools, St. Ann’s
- Trent Bridge Schools. Became Trent Bridge Military Hospital in spring 1915.
- By December 1915 it could accomdate up to 250 patients.
- Thornton House, Ropewalk
- A private house, used as an annexe by the General Hospital
- Ellerslie House Paralysed Sailors and Soldiers Home, Gregory Boulevard
- Property purchased by the Duke of Portland in May 1917 as a specialist care home for men with spinal injuries.
- The Bayley Red Cross Hospital, Derby Road
- Eastwood
- Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital
- Commandant Miss Mary Aloysia Gillott. Her brother Oswald was killed in 1917 as an officer of the Royal Engineers.
- Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital
- Newark-on-Trent
- Red Cross Hospital, Lombard Street
- Thorney Hall Red Cross Hospital
- Opened in May 1915 with 35 beds by Mr. Charles and Mrs. Inez Blanche Ellis of Rampton Manor. Used as a convalescent facility for the 3rd Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.
- Radcliffe-on-Trent
- Nottinghamshire County Asylum, Saxondale near Radcliffe. Became County War Hospital in mid-1918.
- Continued to be a hospital for mental patients and is named at least once as the Radcliffe Shell Shock Hospital.
- Lamcote Officers Auxiliary Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent
- Opened in April 1918 with 23 beds. The home of its Commandant, American-born Mrs. Claire Birkin, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin who had taken the 1/7th Sherwood Foresters to France.
- Radcliffe Hall Convalescent Hospital for Officers, Radcliffe-on-Trent
- Nottinghamshire County Asylum, Saxondale near Radcliffe. Became County War Hospital in mid-1918.
- Retford
- Babworth Hall.
- Mrs. Eileen Whitaker.
- Sherwood Rangers Headquarters Hospital, 12, Lime Tree Avenue
- Babworth Hall.
- Southwell
- Both of these hospitals were the property of William Norton Hicking, who offered them for use as such.
- Brackenhurst Hall Auxiliary Military Hospital, Southwell
- Commandant Mrs. William Norton Hicking
- Burgage Manor Red Cross Hospital, Southwell
- Accepted by the War Office for use as a hospital in early November 1914 under commandant Miss Small.
- Worksop
- Viscountess Galway’s Auxiliary Military Hospital, located at Serlby Hall, near Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
- The Viscountess was a pioneer of voluntary medical work and had set aside space at her home for use as a potential military hospital well before the war. It was the only auxiliary hospital that had been sanctioned by the War Office before the war. Rapidly equipped with almost 100 beds, it was amongst the first instutions of its kind to receive wounded soldiers from France.
- Viscountess Galway’s Auxiliary Military Hospital, located at Serlby Hall, near Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
Other related local facilities
Nottingham War Hospital Supply Depot, Mansfield. Opened December 1915 for stock and provision of many types of suppies for the local hospitals (including, for example, bandages, splints, swabs, and sphagnum moss).