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I certainly knew how the Pavilion was used - but did not know that it was propaganda! It was certainly segregated. There is a 35pp booklet on my shelves: Joyce Collins, Dr.Brighton's Indian Patients, December 1914 - January 1916, published by Brighton Books (nd). Has great photographs. She tells a different story: Collins says many buildings in Brighton had already been converted into hospitals for troops; initially the Indians were supposed to have a hospital in France. This was changed and the 'Mayor, the Chairman of the Pavilion Committee and the Town Clerk' suggested the Pavilion (already in use for war purposes) 'The Corporation readily agreed.' A ship being used as a hospital in S'oton had been on fire, so the wounded Indians on it had been transferred to 'an adapted hospital' there. The King visited the following day and 'appointed Sir Walter Lawrence his Commissioner in chrge of the Welfare of Indian Troops, with responsibility to take action in the matter'.