- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 55218
- Description
- Typed, framed text with the Russian, British and American flags above the text.
- Inscription
- GUY'S MARSH PRISON/ A MODERN PRISON WITH A VARIED TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR MEN/ On this site in 1938 a 600-bedded military hospital was built. During the/ 1939 - 1945 war the facilities were used by the British and American/ Forces. In 1945 the psychologically distressed casualties, ex-prisoners of the/ Japanese sufffering considerable mental anguish, returned from purgatory/ to be nursed towards recovery in this former hospital. The new wonder/ drug, Streptomycin, saved many suffering ex-prisoners on life's edge, ill/ with tuberculosis. Guy's Marsh was one of the first places where the drug/ was used in 1945./ Private Vladimir Duschin of the Soviet Army buried in Shaftsbury/ cemetery, died on Tuesday, February 6th 1945 in Guy's Marsh having been/ a prisoner of the Germans. It is perhaps symbolic to remember Private/ Vladimir Duschin. 55 million citizens of all nations died in the Second/ World War. Of this total 20 million citizens of the Russian Republic died./ It is believed that the first hip replacement operation was carried out in/ this former military hospital. The military hospital was closed in 1952 and/ taken over by the Prison Department in 1962 as an open Borstal for young/ offenders./ Great Britain and her allies fought with bravery and honour all around the/ world. In this beautiful part of rural Dorset it is right to remember/ the poem "For our tomrorow they gave their today". At the start of the New/ Millennium we commit these memories to history.