The CEF network of medical facilities made a major contribution during the First World War. They included four casuality clearing stations, 10 stationary hospitals, convalescent hospitals, and 16 general hospitals.
The 16th Canadian General Hospital, renamed from the Ontario Military Hospital, treated over 25,000 First World War soldiers. Staffed solely by Ontario medical professionals, the Government of Ontario paid $2 million for its construction in Orpington, Kent. It opened in early 1916 and functioned until September 1919.
Read the story of the hospital and Dr. L. Bruce Robertson, a surgeon from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, who pioneered WW1 blood transfusions for wounded soldiers and worked at the hospital.
Orpington (All Saints) Churchyard Extension holds the graves of 88 CEF fatalities, over half from the Canadian Infantry.