Soldiers wearing artificial legs, c1915-1918.
- Made:
- circa 1915-1918
Postcard of British soldiers wearing artificial legs, c.1915-1918. The parallel bars are to support the men as they learn to walk with their new limbs. Almost certainly 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.