wizard2250 Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Could anyone tell if this is a P.O.W. group photo or simply a photo or soldiers recovering at a hospital. My Pop is in both and I assume it may be just a hospital shot as the backs are both marked 'With Love From Mike'. thanks, shawn Seems I need a second post due to photo size. Sorry for gobbling up the bandwidth! shawn Edit: Hhmmm, seems two posts together by the same person are blended into one! Didn't know that! Excellant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 My guess is hospital. I do not see any fences and I am assuming the fellow with the lanyard still has a knife attached to it...? -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 The men look too smart to be PoWs in my view. None is in hospital blues, which probably rules out wounded in a UK hospital, but perhaps they were in France. They look content, not too war-ravaged. What is the kit worn by the bandaged figure and the cut-off man in #1? French? Best I can offer. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piorun Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Looks like French soldiers included and nurse is typical for RC-run hospitaller nun. Great photos, Shawn. Antony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard2250 Posted 18 January , 2011 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Thank You all for the comments so far. I'm glad my Aunt had kept these photos safe over the years. Strangely, his service record shows Wandsworth in Dec. 1915 (no snow in photos). This was just after being transferred from a hospital in Malta (wounded Oct. 1915). There were two visits to Field Hospitals in France due to shell wounds in 1916. The only other hospital would be King Geo. in 1918 after being released as an 18 month P.O.W. shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Thank You all for the comments so far. I'm glad my Aunt had kept these photos safe over the years. Strangely, his service record shows Wandsworth in Dec. 1915 (no snow in photos). This was just after being transferred from a hospital in Malta (wounded Oct. 1915). There were two visits to Field Hospitals in France due to shell wounds in 1916. The only other hospital would be King Geo. in 1918 after being released as an 18 month P.O.W. shawn Which fellow is him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard2250 Posted 18 January , 2011 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Which fellow is him? Second photo sitting Front Left. First photo standing at rear left. shawn Edit: My Dad is 72 and was born about 20-odd years after this picture. He's fairly sure on the ID! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Very nice photos....and great that you have them! Thanks for sharing them. -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 18 January , 2011 Share Posted 18 January , 2011 Strangely, his service record shows Wandsworth in Dec. 1915 (no snow in photos). This was just after being transferred from a hospital in Malta (wounded Oct. 1915). There were two visits to Field Hospitals in France due to shell wounds in 1916. The only other hospital would be King Geo. in 1918 after being released as an 18 month P.O.W. shawn I would have said rather too many leaves for December in Wandsworth! I definitely looks very summery whichever year it was Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard2250 Posted 19 January , 2011 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2011 One thing I noticed about his service record is that he suffered from Typhoid fever in Suvla Bay. That was October 1915. His next appointment/attachment wasn't until July 1916 after the tragedy at Beaumont Hamel. If he was in Wandsworth or at a place for recovering from this, could it be that this is a U.K.-based hospital? Would he be out of commission for that long? Maybe someone with nursing attire knowledge could verify that it is indeed a French nurse or French dressing kits on the bandaged men. I know from other topics that hospital blues show up noticeably darker than a nurse's white uniform on old B&W photos which seems to be the same here. Thanks for all the information. shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 19 January , 2011 Share Posted 19 January , 2011 I am by far not an expert, but Typhoid can take quite a while to recover from. My GF got it and was in hospital more than 4 months before he was fit enough to return to duty. -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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