Kent VAD ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
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Kent VAD ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
A Kent VAD ambulance is parked by some buildings at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Two sailors are carrying a stretcher. A man and a VAD nurse are leaning over the stretcher. Four other men, including service personnel and a hospital patient are standing nearby. The sailors came up from Ramsgate Harbour to help when an ambulance train arrived at the station. This photograph is in the archive collection related to the Quex Park VAD Hospital. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum. Major Powell-Cotton was the VAD Transport Officer for the Isle of Thanet area, responsible for organising the transport of patients from the stations to the local hospitals. Date: 1916
Media ID 14305200
© The Powell-Cotton Museum Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Ambulance Archive Arrived Closed Commandant Cotton Detachment Four Hannah Including Leaning Major Nearby Nurse Opened Parked Patient Percy Personnel Powell Ramsgate Related Sailors Stretcher
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