The Gate-Way to
the Royal Pavilion grounds from the South.
A gift of the people of India to the inhabitants
of Brighton and Hove, as a THANK YOU to ‘Doctor Brighton’
for caring.
Dedicated to the memory of the Indian soldiers that were in
hospital in Brighton and Hove, during the ‘Great War’.
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The inscriptions
on the Gateway:
This gateway is the gift of India in
commemoration of her sons who –
stricken in the Great War - were tended
in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915.
Dedicated to the use of the inhabitants
of the Brighton, B.N. Southall, Mayor’ .
Today many thousands of people pass daily through the Pavilion
Gate.
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replying His Highness said.
‘For many of those who had returned to India he had
heard expressions of fervent gratitude for the attention and
care
lavished upon them by 'Doctor. Brighton',
whose fame and skill as a healer
and health restorer were talked of in many hundreds of remote
Indian villages. |
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The Welcome Committee.
All past mayors and Councillors, at the
Pavilion they were received by the
Mayor and Mayoress, Mrs. B. N. Southall, consisting of the
members of the Town Council in their robes, the Lord Lieutenant
the Chief Constable. The Town Clerk Mr. Hugo Talbot, O.B.E.
read an address of welcome.
In return the mayor of Brighton
presents the Maharaja, with a gold key which was a copy
of the original key to the Royal Pavilion. |
Many buildings
in the City were converted
to accommodate wounded soldiers,
during 'The Great War'.
The Work House Elm Grove, renamed
Kitchener General Indian Hospital, now Brighton General Hospital.
Converted into a 2000 beds Indian Military training hospital.
Brighton & Hove VI form College
converted into a 520 beds Military hospital, receiving Dominion
troops, in February 1915
Howard House and 2 houses in Sussex
Square.
5 Eastern Terrace and a number of houses in Kemptown. known
as The Kemptown Hospital.
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The Royal Pavilion,
Corn Exchange and the Dome, were converted into an Indian
Military hospital. The Corn exchange ceased to be a corn market
in August 1914.
York Place School Converted into
a hospital specially adapted for the Indian wounded soldiers
Other Military Hospitals in Brighton
& Hove.
No 6 Third Ave Hove 40 beds, plus
operating theatre.
Royal Sussex County Hospital.
100 beds.
Hove Dispensary 20 beds.
French Convalescent Home 80 beds.
38 Adelaide Crescent Hove, 20
beds.
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