Title

Military hospital, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, July 1915

Caption

Military hospital, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, July 1915. The open air isolation ward in the military hospital showing injured soldiers lying in bed. Open air treatment was used to treat infections and wounds in the early 20th century. Dame Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, converted part of Woburn Abbey into a military hospital during the First World War.

Date

1915

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B06_353

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,5Mb (2,2Mb) / 16,3in x 13,0in / 4880 x 3904 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England interior indoors healthcare house country British English bed bedroom room military war location century Britain inside open air ward soldiers soldier recuperation wound fresh air first world war wartime recovery concept bedfordshire B&W recovering MONOCHROME wounded country house stately home recuperating Converted World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century English Heritage 1st World War bedchamber Home Front TGN war effort war work WW1 Woburn Abbey photograph Woburn Mary Duchess of Bedford Russell H Bedford Lemere Bedford Lemere H bed chamber Mary Russell Duchess of Bedord Mary Russell Duchess of Bedord photograph