base hospital

noun

Australian a hospital serving a large rural area

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How to use base hospital in a sentence

He was discharged as unfit for further service—spinal operation—from a New Jersey base hospital on January 12, 1918.
Murder at Bridge | Anne Austin
On the second day he received orders to evacuate the wounded from an American base hospital near the Marne.
The Marne | Edith Wharton
Where do you think youre in—a communication trench or a field-dressing-station or a base hospital?
Grapes of wrath | Boyd Cable
I found poor old Alan at the base hospital, in terrible pain, poor boy, but not dangerously wounded.
My War Experiences in Two Continents | Sarah Macnaughtan
The German base hospital for the troops in the coast battles and at Ypres was stationed at Bruges when our photograph was taken.
The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 | Various

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