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====33 Field Hospital==== In 1996, 33 [[Field Hospital]] (a 200-bed rapid-deployment [[containerised]] mobile hospital)<ref name="NavyNews1998" /> relocated to Fort Blockhouse following the closure of [[Cambridge Military Hospital]], [[Aldershot Garrison|Aldershot]], where it had been established in 1985.<ref name="33FHosp">{{Cite web |title=History of 33 Field Hospital - 33_Fd_Hosp.pdf |url=https://www.friendsofmillbank.org/downloads/33_Fd_Hosp.pdf}}</ref> Over the next twenty years the field hospital was regularly deployed, to [[Kosovo War|Kosovo]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[War in Afghanistan (2001β2021)|Afghanistan]], the last deployment being to [[South Sudanese Civil War|South Sudan]] in 2017.<ref name="33FHosp" /> 33 Field Hospital remained at Fort Blockhouse until 1 December 2018, when it was disbanded after 33 yearsβ existence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.friendsofmillbank.org/downloads/33_Fd_Hosp.pdf|title=A history of 33 Field Hospital|first= Colonel David |last=Vassallo |publisher=Friends of Millbank|access-date=16 August 2024}}</ref>
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