Mysterious Hospital WW1

[hepburn]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8225/8377193418_1efe1322dd_m.jpg

This says it's st Marylebone,No 2 Australian Auxillary..

[hepburn]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/8377193418/in/set-72157632271140823


That first pic was a bit rubbish

[youngtug]

That do's not look at all like the building in the original photograph. Also I would have expected to see more amputees in the photo if it had been St, Marylebone.   

     

2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2AAH) This hospital located at Southall, England, specialised in the fitting of artificial limbs.

[Midase]

It opened in August 1916 but didn't begin to specialise in the fitting of artificial limbs until November 1916. Could this be the last patients perhaps?

[youngtug]

Not St.Marylebone school, Southall in your photo, going by hepburn's link

[Midase]

I now have a better picture of the soldiers http://www.flickr.com/photos/78630129@N03/9143790072/

[Rena]

There's an excellent flicker website which shows scores of old hospitals on ten pages.  I noticed many of the patients in several of the British army hospitals are wearing those jackets with light coloured (white) lapels.

Here's the url for Page 1

https://www.flickr.com/groups/hospitalsinlondon/pool/?view=lg

[Treetotal]

The men are wearing hospital blues.
Carol

[Scarletwoman]

The original photo was taken in a section of a UK Territorial Force General Hospital, many of which were located in schools taken over by the War Office in 1914. In the larger of the two photos you can see that the nursing sisters have silver 'T' badges on the lapels of their capes. There were 25 TF General Hospitals in the UK, and the ones that most commonly (but not exclusively) had their sections in schools were:

No.2 Western General Hospital, Manchester
No.2 Eastern General Hospital, Brighton
No.1 Scottish General Hospital, Aberdeen
No.4 Southern General Hospital, Plymouth
No.5 Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth

Sue