Group portrait of soldiers, many of them amputees, c1916-1917.
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Postcard of British soldiers c.1916-1917. Some are wearing artificial legs and others are in wheelchairs legs. Many are holding up their walking sticks and crutches. The title reads: 'Fragments from France and elsewhere meet the Future full of Faith and Hope'. Photographed at 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.
