Date:1915 - 1918 (c.)
Description:A group of convalescing military personnel during World War I photographed against the south-facing window of Ravenhill House, adjacent to the garden. The centrally seated man has his head bandaged whilst the man next to him in the wheel chair is an amputee. The hospital was always full to capacity. In 1917 a total of 347 patients were accommodated for an average stay of twenty seven and a half days. Photographer: D. Bates, Moors Gorse, Rugeley.
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The house had been briefly unoccupied when, in March 1915, the War Office intimated that Lady Zouche ...
A group of Red Cross V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurses seated outside the south facing windows ...
A group of Red Cross V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurses at Ravenhill House, Brereton, in about ...
A group of convalescing military personnel photographed during World War I against the south-facing ...
A group of convalescing military personnel during World War I photographed against the south-facing ...
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Source: Landor Local History Society
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