Date:September 2016
Description:World War II shed or store viewed from the from south. Used as a sports equipment and groundsman's store for the Staffordshire County Council sports field. The 312th Station Hospital on Shugborough Park was built during 1943 for the use of the United States Army during the Second World War. The thousand bed hospital had over 500 medical officers, medical other ranks and female nurses under the command of Colonel Ernest Parsons. It specialised as a psychiatric unit. In 1945 the war Office took over the Hospital and it became a war crimes hospital until 1948 and was part used as Prisoner of War Camp No. 99. After 1948 it was suggested the hospital be adapted for civilian patients, but nothing came of the plans and little now remains on the site. In the late 1960s the site was laid out as a sports field for Staffordshire County Council employees.
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The 312th Station Hospital on Shugborough Park was built during 1943 for the use of the United States ...
View looking east along the original World War II main access road (now leads to Outdoor education centre) ...
View looking north-east along original World War II access road on north-western edge of the site. The ...
Looking west along original World War II access road along southern edge of site. The sports pavilion ...
World War II shed or store viewed from the from south. Used as a sports equipment and groundsman's store ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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