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BMH Mount KellettInformation memories and photographs of British Military Hospital Mount Kellett Hong Kong 
BMH Mount Kellett was located in Hong Kong. It is now closed. Below are memories and information about British Military Hospital Mount Kellett Hong Kong provided by former members of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps and Royal Army Medical Corps: The War Memorial Nursing Home built at Mount Kellett was to commemorate those who lost their lives in the 1914 to 1918 war. It opened 16th march 1932. I do not have any more further information of this time or the WW2 era. The building was built in attractive creamy white stone: granite or limestone I think. BMH Mount Kellett was located on the Peak Hong Kong and commanded wonderful views of the South China Sea and surrounding islands. In September 1946 the War Office bought this hospital as United Services Hospital. I only knew this as BMH Mount Kellett which continued to operate until 1967. I believe it may then have been empty until the mid 1970s when it was demolished. The hospital was acquired by the government from the war dept in 1967 for $500,000 it also included the transfer of a block of flats lower down Mount Kellett Road which were previously used as QA Sisters quarters and later renovated into 6 flats. The hospital covered 111,000sq ft on 4 floors. The site footprint being 48,000sq ft. It had been considered as being used as a convalescent hospital for infectious diseases. However in 1971 the initial cost of refurbishment of $3.5m had risen to $6m so the scheme was abandoned. Kings Park, may also be known as Wylie Road, was another BMH which opened in 1967 presumably to consolidate hospital services as far eastern forces were being reduced which was way after my time of 1961-62. Hong Kong forces were reduced by 15% between 1975-1978 and this hospital closed in 1996 with all health care for the military passed to civilian doctors. Trevor Harvey (RAMC). Qaranc.co.uk would also like to thank Trevor Harvey, who worked in the STC isolation ward, for the photograph of British Military Hospital Mount Kellett Hong Kong at the top of this page as well as kindly providing the useful info. Forces War Records Forces War Records are a military genealogy site where you can find military records of over 3.5 million British Armed Forces personnel cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces. This link includes a free search and a special discount of 40% off membership offer for visitors from qaranc.co.uk who use the discount code AF40 if they decide to become a member. Search For Free Now. If you like this page and would like to easily share it with your friends and family please use the social networking buttons below: Tweet 
Union Jack Club in Hong Kong Trevor also told Qaranc.co.uk about the New Years Dance All Ranks Party that took place at the Union Jack Club in Hong Kong on Saturday 6th January 1962. The three young QA Officers in the photograph below are Sister Constantine (first left in picture), Sister M.Cavanagh (centre) and Sister D.Spooner (right of picture). 
Below are more photos from the collection of Trevor Harvey. These include some taken at the Hong Kong Union Jack Club of a QA Officer dancing and a group of staff enjoying socialising at the New Years dance at the Union Jack Club HK organised for officers and staff of the hospital. All officers had to wear uniform. The tall officer on the right dressed in the bow tie is the CO Colonel Dick, Trevor is in the centre picture in the lightest grey suite. 
Below is the Christmas Menu 
Below are the printed menu and events which took place for Christmas and New Year 1961 . 
The buildings that replaced British Military Hospital Mount Kellett were BMH Bowen Road Hong Kong and then British Military Hospital Hong Kong Wylie Road Kings Park. Sadly none of the QARANC.co.uk team had a Hong Kong posting and would love to expand this page with more details about this former army hospital and include a photograph. If you are a former or serving member of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps we would love your help. If you would like to contribute any info, photographs or share your memories of BMH Mount Kellett then please contact me. The following pictures have kindly been provided by Chris Lewis who served with 27 Coy.RAMC from 1960 to 1962. He recalls: I very much enjoyed my time at BMH Mt Kellett and I was lucky to have an interesting job. I was involved in Admissions and Discharges, Medical Boards, Death Certificates and a lot of sports. We had quite a good hockey team, mostly doctors, and a good cricket team, so time went too quickly really. One of my highlights during my stay was that we won the Minor Units Knockout Cup at Cricket Final in March 1962 and unfortunately I never got to see the photograph that was taken of our team. The match was between 27 Coy Mt Kellett and 18 Fd Ambulance Fanling so it was serious. The Cup was presented by the Governor of Hong Kong so we were full of ourselves afterwards. Names of the staff that I remember were Col Dick the CO, Major Moran the Matron and Captain Douglas the Admin Officer. He doctors were Dr Brasher, Earlam, Paddle and Bennett and the specialists were LT Col Thompson and Lt Col Webb. The Royal Army Medical Corps quarters which were 1 mile from the hospital.  View of BMH Mt Kellett from OR quarters  Dhobi man at work in the staff quarters  Other ranks Xmas dinner 1961  This is the staff dance of 1961/1962  View more photos of BMH Mount Kellett at Flickr.com (with thanks to Peter Truscott). A QARANC wall plaque and shield is available to buy through Amazon. The QA shield is hand made and ready to hang on the wall. . Buy Now.  View British Army Nursing Books - with free delivery available. If you would like to contribute to this page, suggest changes or inclusions to this website or would like to send me a photograph then please e-mail me. For the official Army QARANC webpage please go to www.army.mod.uk/home.aspx For the QA Association website please go to http://www.army.mod.uk/medical-services/nursing/30987.aspx *********************************************** The information request section has moved to the Army Nursing page. |
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