Picture No | 10731663 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, WW1 |
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Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, the seat of Sir Vincent and Lady Caillard, which had operated as a military hospital since October 1914 commencing with seventeen beds and increasing to accommodate forty. Lady Caillard (pictured left) acted as commandant and was assisted by her only daughter. Over four hundred patients had passed through between it opening until this picture was published in The Tatler in January 1918. Sir Vincent Caillard was formerly in the Sappers and was a director of Vickers Ltd.
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Source | Unattributed photographs in The Tatler, 16 January 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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