Closure of Waringfield Military Hospital

Closure of Waringfield Military Hospital

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Location

Moira

Year

1963

Date

Production 23/11/1963

Length

02min 20sec

Audio

silent

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Church service at Moira Parish Church commemorating the closure of Waringfield Military Hospital. The hospital was founded in 1942 by the US military at Waringfield House near Moira. Wounded soldiers from throughout the world underwent treatment at Waringfield Military Hospital. British, American, and Belgian troops as well as returning prisoners of war from the Far East occupied beds in the Moira hospital. Ambulances also arrived regularly from the nearby Maghaberry Airfield, Co. Antrim. The hospital closed when military operations moved to Musgrave Park Hospital in 1963. The house was demolished in the late 1980s. 

Notes

Waringfield House was a grand Georgian building standing between the villages of Moira, Co. Down and Magheralin, Co. Armagh. It was home to the Waring family, who owned more than 2,000 acres of land in the area and after whom the nearby Waringstown takes its name. 

 

US troops arrived in Northern Ireland in 1942. By the end of the war, over 300,000 had passed through on their way to service elsewhere.  

Credits

An Ulster Television Production

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