The hospital was established in June 1916, after moving from Abasseyeh in Egypt.

It had been the Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers.

[2][3] When Katharine McCall Anderson became matron of the Lady Hardinge Hospital in 1914 it had 500 beds.

1NZGH became the orthopaedic centre for the New Zealand Medical Service in Britain.

[6] Saint Nicholas Churchyard has 106 graves of those who died from the war including 93 New Zealanders, three Indian and three unidentified Belgian civilians.