Nursing staff and wounded British soldiers in a hospital ward, c1915-1918

Postcard of nursing staff and wounded British soldiers, mostly in wheelchairs, posing for a photograph in a hospital ward, c1915-1918. 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.