RM2A498GG–WW1 era hospital ward with recovering British army soldiers, possibly auxiliary hospital for non life threatening injuries, cared for by red cross nurses, Voluntary Aid Detachment or VAD's , circa 1915, 1916, U.K.
RM2GJFT7K–Original WW1 era photographic postcard of wounded soldiers with nurses, (many of them members of the local Voluntary Aid Detachments or VADs) outside Davidson Rd. War Hospital, South Norwood, London, U.K. Even the ward beds have been taken outside. The hospital was in operation from 1915-1919.
RM2WXM71R–Original WW1 era comic cartoon postcard of invalided Scottish man in wheelchair faced with a desperate single woman. Around two million came home to Britain from First World War with some disability. dated / posted 22 Sept 1919, U.K.
RM2T7KB2R–Original WW1 era postcard of soldiers recovering or being treated possibly for shell shock with electro therapy at Electrical Treatment Room, Crescent War Hospital, Croydon, London, Circa 1917. U.K.
RM2GPFMFD–Original WW1 era Daily Mail War Pictures postcard of soldiers helping push an ambulance belonging to the 16th (Irish) Division through the mud in Mametz Wood, Battle of the Somme, France, July 1916. Official War Photographs series. Printed in England.
RM2NEKRM6–Original WW1 postcard of British wounded convalescent soldiers some with bandages, one has an eye & head wound, others may have shell shock / PTSD. Some wearing blue hospital 'blues' uniforms, others overcoats, outside a Field Hospital, a medical facility behind the front lines, or base hospital at the rear in France maybe, or a 'reserve' hospital back in the U.K. A soldier of the York and Lancaster Regiment stands in the middle of the group, perhaps these men are from his regiment. There are several Royal Army Medical Corps privates in attendance together with staff nurses, Circa 1915-1918.
RM2BRCB4T–Original WW1 era comic cartoon postcard of wounded soldier, wounded in the stomach, dated 17 Aug 1917, U.K.
RM2J4J5FD–Original WW1 era postcard of wounded men and nursing staff at 2nd Northern General Hospital Leeds (known as Beckett's Park Hospital, Headingley) - a Territorial Forces hospital during World War 1. The patients are looking cheerful. The card was posted by a nurse who was caring for these wounded men 11 July 1917 , U.K.
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