Our ties with Scotland began in in 1919. A hospital was opened for totally disabled men of the First World War at the invitation of Lady Anne Kerr, sister of the Duke of Norfolk.

Named St. Raphaels, the hospital began with 33 men - invalids of the “war to end all wars”. In 1928, the first civilian patients are taken into the hospital and between the wars served as a modern general hospital for the people of Edinburgh.

In years of the Second World War, it was again asked to receive the wounded, but in fact few war casualties are admitted. Instead, the hospitl received elderly people bombed out of their homes and hospitals.

Today, St. Raphael’s has ended its life as a general hospital. It now serves as a nursing home for elderly patients, and remains an important part of our LCM mission and ministry to the people of the United Kingdom.

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