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BMH Iserlohn BMH Iserlohn had originally been a Panzer barracks and, in fact, vestiges of the Reich's Eagle remain on the front gate (with the swastika chiseled off, of course). It is unsure sure when or why it became a British Military Hospital, but it is believed to have been coverted circa 1950 or 1952.
When the Canadian Brigade was in the area (1950s to 1970), they utilised the hospital, .many Canadian Army children being born at BMH Iserlohn as the Canadians did not have a "CMH"....and, of course, military personnel also were often patients as well.
The site is now a technical college.
Courtesy of Terry Flanagan Courtesy of Terry Flanagan The following photographs are kind courtesy of Canadian Ruhr Memories.
My mother, Winifred Ruth Doonan, or Doonie to her friends, arrived at BMH Isrelohn towards the end of the war. She was a member of the VADs and had served at various military hospitals in the UK before being sent to Belgium where she volunteered to be with the first contingent of nurses to go into the camps that were being liberated by the Allies. I'm not too sure how it came about, but I know she ended up at BMH Iserlohn, nursing some of the inmates who had been in the camps. Somewhere along the line she met and married my father, John George Fretwell, who was a member of the RAMC and had been one of the first into Belsen. They actually married in the hospital chapel in BMH Iserlohn. Jo Reade .jpg) Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
Courtesy of Herr Manfred Schmitt
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