On the west side of the road. It is set on the ground at the foot of the brick wall monument. Plaque

A large, rectangular, stone tablet, bearing a dedication message that is written in English in white lettering. On the top left and right corners of the tablet are depictions of crossed flags of the US and UK.

From 1944 to 1945, the 65th General Hospital was stationed at Redgrave Park in Suffolk, England. Their staff handled a constant stream of front-line casualties from heavy bomber crews, acute diseases, and emergency cases, and acted as a specialty center for neurosurgery, thoracic and plastic surgery, burns, and hand injuries. The unit treated more than 17,000 patients during its time abroad.

The 65th General Hospital treated wounded soldiers who had been evacuated from front-line hospitals in Europe and also served as the first line of treatment for airmen of the 8th U.S. Air Force returning from their missions over Europe.

Unlike most general hospitals which received casualties that had been evacuated backward from the front lines through a series of medical corpsmen, first aid stations, and field and evacuation hospitals, the 65th treated freshly and often severely-wounded airmen returning directly from bombing runs over Germany in bullet- and shrapnel-riddled airplanes. While the majority of other Army general hospitals remained comparatively idle during the build-up to the D-Day invasion, the 65th handled a constant stream of casualties from heavy bomber crews as well as all of the acute diseases and emergency cases from the surrounding air bases. It was also a designated specialty center for neurosurgery, thoracic and plastic surgery, burns, and hand injuries from hospitals throughout eastern England.

Source of information: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, digitaldukemed.mc.duke.edu

Source of photo: geograph.org.uk

REDGRAVE PARK

65TH GENERAL HOSPITAL

U.S. ARMY

DURING WORLD WAR II THE 65th GENERAL HOSPITAL, A RESERVE UNIT OF DUKE UNIVERSITY,

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA USA WAS LOCATED HERE ON THE GROUNDS OF REDGRAVE PARK.

OF NISSEN HUT CONSTRUCTION, SUPPLEMENTED BY WARD TENTS, THE HOSPITAL HAD 1400 BEDS

AND SERVED FROM FEBRUARY 15TH 1944 TO AUGUST 20 1945 AS THE MAJOR HOSPITAL CENTRE FOR

THE SURROUNDING U.S. 8TH AIR FORCE. IN ADDITION, AFTER D DAY, JUNE 6TH 1944 IT TREATED

THOUSANDS OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS MOVED HERE FROM THE WAR ON THE CONTINENT.

DEDICATED 26TH JUNE 1992

AS A SYMBOL OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES