[2] Established in the second half of the 19th century, it was named after Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and was for a while a specialist venereal disease hospital for 300 men.

[1] The Cambridge Hospital was also the first place where plastic surgery was performed in the British Empire.

Gillies fell in love with the work, and at the end of 1915 was sent back from France to start a Plastic Unit in the Cambridge Hospital.

[1] He was assisted in this work by the dental surgeon William Kelsey Fry, who reconstructed jaws.

[13] The hospital was closed on 2 February 1996 due to the high cost of running the old building as well as the discovery of asbestos in the walls.

[6] Nearby at the top of Gun Hill is the RAMC Memorial which commemorates the 314 men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who lost their lives in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902.

[15] The Grade II listed former hospital building and the 12 acre complex of Victorian and Edwardian era support buildings around it is being redeveloped at a cost of £60 million for residential use by Weston Homes as Gun Hill Park, part of the newly created Wellesley Estate in Aldershot.

[16] Gun Hill Park incorporates a number of new-build houses with private gardens and set in landscaped grounds.