Old soldiers' home in the ranks before receiving a commission. The site for the Royal Hospital was an area of Chelsea which held an incomplete building "Chelsey College", a theological college James I founded in 1609. The Royal Hospital opened its doors to the Chelsea Pensioners in 1692 for "the relief and succour" of veterans. Some of the first soldiers admitted included those injured at the Battle of Sedgemoor. The hospital maintains a 'military-based culture which puts a premium on comradeship'. The in-pensioners are formed into three companies, each headed by a Captain of Invalids (an ex-Army officer responsible for the 'day to
Royal Chest Hospital and the Royal Chest Hospital in 1919. It amalgamated with the Royal Northern Hospital and, following damage from bombing sustained during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service in 1948. It closed in 1954 and the building has since been demolished. Royal Chest Hospital The Royal Chest Hospital was a hospital in City Road, London. The hospital was founded by Isaac Buxton in 1814 as the Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Pulmonary Diseases. At first it had only eight beds and Buxton was its only physician for the first six years of its existence. It was