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
Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District The Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The historic district of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home campus, on the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds. Contributing buildings in the district were constructed from 1867 to 1955. The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an Old soldiers' home for American Civil War veterans in the then Northwestern region of United States. The Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home Society transferred the money and property already acquired