Oakham Memorial Hospital

The original Building

An engraving over the original entrance

The Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital 1924

The internal plaque

THE RUTLAND COUNTY HOSPITAL
OPENED 1924
ERECTED TO THE HONOURED
AND LOVED MEMORY OF THE MEN
WHO IN THE TERRIBLE YEARS OF WAR
1914 - 1918
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY
AND THEIR SOULS TO GOD

The Hospital

Today it is called the Rutland Memorial Hospital and it remains a much appreciated service to the community.

It is interesting to see that when it was being built it was:

The Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital

when it was opened it had become:

The Rutland County Hospital.


There does not appear to be an on-site record of the men in whose memory it was dedicated but for once the dedication refers to " the terrible years of war"