Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: soldier with arm in traction, wounded in 1st world war. Photograph, 1916.
- Date:
- 1916
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- 30980i
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The military hospital, V.R. 76 was founded in 1915 by the Hon. Lady Johnstone and Mr Harold J. Reckitt. Situated at Ris-Orangis (12 miles south of Paris), treating only surgical cases, the hospital was the operating centre for a group of nine hospitals attached to it. The hospital closed in 1918
Publication/Creation
1916
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 8.5 x 10 cm
Lettering
François Dairees. age 22. 412 Regiment d'Infanterie. ...
The lettering is hand-written onto opposite folio
Lettering continued: "Wounded Jany (?) 10 1916 at Beau Sejour. In private service at Tunbridge Wells before the war"
Folio bears number: 37
Reference
Wellcome Collection 30980i
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