Fryatt Memorial Hospital

Fryatt Memorial Hospital, previously known as Harwich and District Hospital opened in Dovercourt in a large house in 1922, which was converted into a twelve bedded cottage hospital.

[2] By 1925, the hospital was referred as the Harwich and District Hospital and Fryatt Memorial[1] after Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, a Harwich Mariner who was executed in Bruges in 1916 after he tried to ram a German U-boat during the First World War with his civilian boat.

[3] Fryatt had a state funeral in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

In 1925 a new wing was opened which contained two private wards, a ward for men, an operating theatre, nurses accommodation.

The hospital was pulled down in the early twenty-first century.