HOSPITAL ON FIRE
ALL PATIENTS REMOVED. INSTALLED IN BARRACKS. TROOPS’ GOOD WORK. 'TIN!TED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, April 24. ' All available Life Guards and Foot Guards in the Windsor garrison were mobilised when the King Edward VH Hospital, which King It'd ward opened in i9GO, caught fire. The troops tackled the task of moving every patient with wonderful efficiency. Giant Lite Guards plunged into the smoke and brought out in all one hundred patients, either in their arms or on stretchers. Other troops stripped the wards of beds and other important furniture, enabling every patient to t>e installed at the barracks ivliile the fire still burned. Two wings were gutted and the main building was damaged.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 April 1928, Page 7
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125HOSPITAL ON FIRE Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 April 1928, Page 7
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