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.
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
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
Abschnitt Nord Krankenrevier
North Defensive Sector Infirmary & Dispensary
Strongpoint Plemont, St Ouen
Truppenverbandsplatz
"Köln"
Casualty Receiving Station
La Guillerie, St Ouen
Truppenverbandsplatz
"Prag"
Casualty Receiving Station
Haut du Mont, St Brelades
Truppenverbandsplatz
"Chemnitz"
Casualty Receiving Station
Kingsworthy, St Lawrence
Truppenverbandsplatz
"Posen"
Casualty Receiving Station
la Chasse, St Martin
Truppenverbandsplatz
"Elsfleth"
Casualty Receiving Station
Le Mont de la Barcelone, St Mary