Imperial Patients, Quex Park VAD Hospital

Imperial Patients of Quex Park VAD Hospital in the garden of Quex House. Twenty patients are in the foreground of the photograph, a further three can be seen in the background near the verandah which ran along the back of the Museum buildings. All the men are wearing hospital blues the uniform of Imperial patients in military hospitals. Most are wearing their regimental caps. The man seated on the ground second from the right appears to wearing some sort of mask, perhaps a lion mask, with a hair or fur edging. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum

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