EC0156

Handwritten manuscript two pages long on line paper. "True thoughts and appreciation of the sister and nurses, or the Dear old nurse with the show which hair"

"By a poet at Crag-Head Hospital 1916"

"Crag Head Red Cross Hospital, Manor Road.
Opened in by the Red Cross in Oct 1914 as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. The hospital originally provided 100 beds and was divided into 14 wards arranged on 3 floors. The hospital was under the supervision of Surgeon-General Stevenson of Boscombe Military Hospital. The hospital was closed at the end of 1918. Crag Head was demolished in 1972 and a block of luxury flats erected on the site in 1973. "