Studio photograph of an Australian VAD patient

Studio photograph of an Australian Sergeant. He is sitting on a small table against a backdrop of a curtained window. His hat is beside him on the table. He is wearing an identity bracelet on his right wrist. He may have been a patient at the Quex Park VAD Hospital. 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

Backdrop Brichington Commandant Curtained Detachment Identity Percy Quex Recuperation Rehabilitation Voluntary Wrist

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