Making wooden prosthetic limbs during World War One, c1915-1918.

PART OF:
Injured soldiers at Queen Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Roehampton
Made:
circa 1915-1918
Making wooden prosthetic limbs during World War One, c1915-1918.

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Postcard of workers making artificial limbs, c.1915-1918. Probably photographed in the limb-making workshops associated with Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospital, Roehampton, London. From an album of 104 postcards and a pen and ink drawing showing injured soldiers at Queen Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Roehampton, members of the Essex Regiment and other medical pictures, 1914-1918.

Queen Mary's was a specialised orthopaedic hospital opened in 1915 and was mainly devoted to fitting artificial limbs to the thousands of British soldiers who lost limbs during World War One, 1914-1918.

Details

Category:
Orthopaedics
Object Number:
1999-317/3
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
medicine, artificial limbs, artificial legs, prostheses, queen mary's hospital, roehampton, limb-making, postcards and world war one

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