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| Picture No | 10699326 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Description | Nurses at Egginton Hall Hospital, WW1 |
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Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, opened as a military hospital by Mrs Arthur Dugdale in October 1914, pictured with numerous convalescent soldiers - and nurses - enjoying the grounds. The hospital had a hundred beds - forty in the house, the ground floor having been converted into wards, mess room, operating theatre etc and sixty in three huts which had been built onto the house. Ambulance trains of wounded were received direct from the front, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. The house was demolished in 1955.
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| Source | Photograph by Compton Collier in The Tatler, 3 January 1917 |
| Credit | ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library |
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