
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. ​

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.
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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