UK HOME HOSPITALS 1917

     On these pages you'll find a list of all the hospitals in the United Kingdom that were caring for military personnel by the autumn of 1917.  Some were military hospitals before the war, and others were civil hospitals providing special wards for soldiers. However, most were Territorial Force and auxiliary hospitals opened just for the duration of the war. The lists are divided into Command areas, and within each Command there are 'Central' hospitals which admitted men direct from disembarkation, and 'Auxiliary' hospitals which received their patients from one of the Central units. Later in the war some of the larger auxiliary hospitals also received patients direct, but this was the exception rather than the rule. In total they number just under 2,500, and although I have more information associated with these units, relating to size, number of beds and the type of cases they specialised in, it's rather too much to add here.I hope that this simple list will be of use for identifying individual hospitals, or perhaps for tracing all units in a specific geographical area. 
As a word of warning - if you're searching these pages for a particular hospital, the Command areas do not always cover the places that you might consider logical.  For instance, Walsall comes under Southern Command, while many areas of the South coast such as Brighton and Eastbourne are within the Eastern Command area, so a look at all the pages might be helpful.

Aldershot Command - below
Eastern Command - below
Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney - below
Irish Command
London District
Northern Command
Scottish Command
Southern Command
Western Command