The last surgical outpost of Empire as 95 and 96. JASGBI December 2012 - 38

David Vassallo, Clinical Director, The Princess Mary's Hospital, RAF Akrotiri
David A Rew, Visiting Consultant, General Surgeon, Colonel, Defence Medical Services (V)

Ist November 2012 marked the closure of The Princess Mary's Hospital at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, the last remaining peacetime British Military Hospital overseas, after 50 years of existence. TPMH Akrotiri has been one of the most spectacularly located and beautifully appointed hospitals in the portfolio of the UK Taxpayer since its construction in the early 1960s, when the contraction of Imperial responsibilities East of Suez, and the expansion of the military presence in Cyprus, mandated a new medical and surgical facility for military personnel and their dependants in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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