Album of postcards showing Queen Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, 1914-1918
Album containing 91 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:
- 1999-317/14
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
-
album: 11.5748 x 8.8583 x .7874 in.; 294 x 225 x 20 mm
- type:
- postcard, album, drawing
- credit:
- Dunn, Julian
