In the 18th century, the Royal Navy urgently needed better ways of looking after its sick and wounded. It built the best hospital the country had ever seen. For over 250 years Haslar treated casualties from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War. Thousands of men are believed to have been buried in unmarked graves in the hospital's cemetery between 1757 and 1826. As the hospital closes its doors for the last time, an archaeological dig to exhume their remains uncovers shocking insights into life and death in the Georgian Navy.
—Channel Four