WW2 German Hospitals

German WW2

Casualty Receiving Stations

and Hospitals

The German Forces set up a series of First Aid Casualty Receiving Stations and Hospitals in Jersey. The most famous of which was the German Underground Hospital. Below is a list of the sites we have discovered so far.

Abteilung I

Merton Hotel

First adapted from a Hotel to a German Naval hospital and then used by the German Airforce.

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Planned Hauptverbandsplatz

Ho18 Tunnel - Main Casualty Receiving Station

Ho18 is believed to be the planned site of Jersey Underground Hospital. Expected to be at Westmount in St Helier, close to the harbours and General Hospital. There was already a tunnel here from copper mining that had been turned in to an Air Raid shelter in 1939 by the parish of St Helier.

Organisation Todt - Hospital

The site of the old Girls college.

Later in the occupation, it became a German Naval hospital and then finally used as a hospital by the Royal Medical Corps during the liberation.

Abschnitt Sud Krankenrevier

South Defensive Sector Infirmary & Dispensary

La Ruette a Pierre, St Lawrence

Truppenverbandsplatz

"Leipzig"

Casualty Receiving Station

Blanchard House, St Peters

Truppenverbandsplatz

"Heidelberg"

Casualty Receiving Station

Heatherdene, St Brelades

Truppenverbandsplatz

"Breslau"

Casualty Receiving Station

Grouville Court, Grouville

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Truppenverbandsplatz

"Berlin"

Casualty Receiving Station

Le Maison Maret, Trinity

Lazarettschiffe

German Medical Ship "Bordeaux "

Captured by USS Maloy (De 791) on the 1st September 1944

while on route from St Helier to Ile de Cézembre

Abteilung II

General Hospital

The Germans took over the 1st floor of the General Hospital.

Hauptverbandsplatz

Ho8 Tunnel - Main Casualty Receiving Station

The Tunnel was initially set up to be a barracks and artillery workshop. Then mid-1944, the Germans converted it to the Main Casualty Receiving Station, ready for an invasion of Jersey. The attack never came, and the hospital was never used for that purpose and was maintained by the 319 Division Field Ambulance Company