Orchard Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, Kent
Soldiers tend the flowerbeds at the Orchard Convalescent Hospital at Long Reach, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War deployment as a military hospital for overseas troops, mainly Australians. The hospital was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1902 as temporary accommodation during a smallpox epidemic
Picture No
10418919
Media ID
47549263
Size
4889px x 3023px
(1.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by Snowden
Date
circa 1915
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