Netley’s military hospital was built to service an empire’s army after the Crimean war. It stood for a century and saw two world wars before being demolished in 1966.
Now, rare photographs have been uncovered from a private album dating from the First World War, which reveal the extraordinary daily life of a forgotten war relic.
The vast Royal Victoria Hospital was as big as a town, with its own gasworks, bakery, reservoir and even prison. But it was still too small to cope with the industrial-scale carnage of the conflict.
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