Frenchay Hospital is a large hospital situated in Frenchay, South Gloucestershire, on the (NE) outskirts of Bristol. Frenchay is a suburb of Bristol, England, to the north east of the city, but located mainly in South Gloucestershire. ... South Gloucestershire is a local government area in South West England. ... Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. ...

The hospital, situated in the grounds of a Georgian mansion, Frenchay Park, started life as a TB hospital (Frenchay Park Sanatorium) in 1921, when Bristol Corporation acquired the land. In 1931 five purpose-built buildings were constructed to extend the hospital beyond the original house.

Concerns about bombing casualties lead to the hospital being greatly expanded between 1938 and early 1942. Although Bristol was severely bombed, the new facilities remained unused. When US forces arrived in 1942, the city handed the new hospital facilities over to the Americans, as a sort of reverse Lend-Lease. Further expansion to the facilities occured in late 1942. Initially, the Americans used the hospital mainly as training facility for their medical staff. After D-Day, however, the hospital was used in earnest, the processing of casualties becoming a very slick operation. Although the Frenchay TB hospital operated as a separate unit throughout the war, the patients were transferred elsewhere in 1947. Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ...

After WW2, the Americans handed the hospital back to the Corporation. The National Health Service acquired the hospital in 1948. The logo of the NHS for England. ...

Over the last 60 years or so, the hospital facilities have been slowly modernized, but many wartime buildings are still very much in evidence.