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| Picture No | 10726244 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Interior of Red Cross hospital at Henham Hall, WW1 |
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The interior of the Countess of Stradbroke's Red Cross Hospital at Henham Hall , Suffolk. Lady Stradbroke, formerly Helena Fraser and wife of George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, pictured with three nurses at the family home of Henham Hall in Suffolk. The house was converted into a military hospital during the First World War and received convoys of wounded soldiers directly from France, who were passed on to the Red Cross once sufficiently well. Lady Stradbroke took sole charge as matron and efficiently superintended the hospital. Henham Hall was demolished in 1953.
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| Source | Photograph in The Sketch, 2 September 1914 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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