Wounded men at Coulter Hospital, Grosvenor Square, WW1

Wounded men relaxing with a cup of tea and fruit cake, and enjoying a game of cards, on the balcony of the Coulter Hospital in Grosvenor Square, London in 1916. The Coulter Hospital opened in September 1915 in a house in Grosvenor Square lent for the purpose by Sir Walpole Greenwell (1847-1919). Accepted by the War Office as a primary hospital affiliated to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, it had 100 beds for officers. The rooms were large and lofty. One of these was an Australian Room and some of the beds had been given by Australian donors. The medical staff were mostly consultants from Guy's Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital, but also included an Australian resident surgeon. The nursing staff comprised 11 nurses, 6 of whom were Australian, and 10 members of a local Voluntary Aid Detachment, whose Commandant was Lady Juliet Duff (1881-1965). The Hospital had been founded by Mrs Charlotte Herbine, an American psychic from Indianapolis, who had raised money for it while visiting the Exposition in San Francisco. The Hospital was named after Dr Coulter, the spirit of a family physician with whom Mrs Herbine had communicated with since she was a child. Dr Coulter had directed her to go to England as he wanted to contact certain Englishmen

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