Convalescing Collection

WW1 silhouettes, wounded soldiers and medical care
Silhouettes of wounded soldiers and medical care during the First World War. From the top: stretcher bearers, a field ambulance, the casualty clearing station, a train taking men off to the base

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

A Good Turn - Get Well Soon
A little girl reads a book with an invalid friend who is recuperating in bed. Date: c. 1930

Nurses and convalescing servicemen in ward
Benyon ward in Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Four nurses standing, several servicemen in bed or seated. Nurses station and floral display can be seen to the centre of the room. Date: circa 1915

Nurses and convalescing servicemen outside
Group of four nurses and five convalescing soldiers in hospital uniform blues. Another serviceman is peering through a hedge on left and a small boy is sitting on a bench to the right Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Wounded Soldiers convalescing at St Lukes Barton Hill, Bristol - 6 September, 1917. Date: 1917

Advert fo J. Foot & Son, convalescing in comfort 1915
WW1 - A product advertisment promoting The Burlington Rest-Chair, an adjustable recling chair. The product is advertised as the ideal chair for the sick and wounded

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

Alexandra Day Collecting Box with photo of the Queen, and the tin still has its original cloth handle. This item includes a postcard dated 1917 showing flag day collectors accompanied by a couple of

The Sphere, convalescent 1914
A convalescent British soldier at home with his family depicted on the cover of the The Sphere Christmas number, 1914. Date: 1914

Visitors for wounded soldiers by Miss Watson Williams
A set of four pictures - the pair on the left entitled, As Tommy Does Not Like It, showing some rather tiresome visitors - an aristocratic lady and a maiden aunt

River trip for wounded soldiers, WW1
An up river trip on the River Thames from Kingston to Walton and back for wounded soldiers convalescing at the Victoria Hospital Chelsea arranged by the print-machine managers at the Illustrated

Lord Londesboroughs hospital at Scopwick
Some of the wounded soldiers convalescing at the hospital at Scopwick House near Blankney, Lincolnshire, home of Lord Londesborough

Wounded soldiers at Cheshire Hunt puppy show, WW1
A scene from the Cheshire Hunt Puppy Show organised by Colonel Hall Walker, the Master of the Cheshire Foxhounds who invited wounded soldiers from local hospitals and entertained them to lunch

Pug Peter -- convalescing at the seaside
Pug Peter -- Peter feels better. Dog convalescing at the seaside in a green wooden bathchair. Date: 1905

How they are produced by Bruce Bairnsfather
An autobiographical cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing how he produces his famous Fragments in France, cartoons showing life for the typical British Tommy on the Western Front during World

Convalescing soldiers and WaCs, Western Front, WW1
Convalescing soldiers and WaCs playing basketball near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Nurse and patient in a Red Cross convalescent home
A nurse and a patient in a Red Cross convalescent home in Little Missenden, Bucks

Two nurses with patient in hospital ward
Two nurses make sure a patient is comfortable in his bed in a hospital ward, possibly somewhere in East London. The patient is a convalescing policeman. Date: late 1960s

Two nurses with convalescing policemen
Two nurses enjoy a joke with a room full of convalescing policemen, possibly somewhere in East London. The men are laughing and smiling, while the nurses hand out cups of tea from a trolley

Group photo, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
A group photograph of police officers, male and female, at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Portland Road, Hove, East Sussex. WPC Kay Parrott is in the second row, on the right. Date: May 1954

Joseph Chamberlain at Cannes, France
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), Liberal politician, with his wife Mary at Cannes, France. He was convalescing following a stroke, and is seen here in a bath chair

Convalescing Woman 19C
A convalescent woman relaxes in her garden

Convalescence
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a small monkey chewing an apple while looking after a convalescing Granpop the orang-utan

Pros & Cons of Sickbed
The pleasure of lying in bed all day while convalescing is somewhat outweighed by inconvenience of dropping crumbs in the bed. Two little girls ruminate

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