- Object type
- Film and Photographic Material
- Date
- 1914 - 1918
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Subject(s)
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Hospitals
Nursing
Voluntarism
Voluntary Aid Detachment
War - Associated organisation
- St John Ambulance Brigade
- Associated activity
-
War
Volunteering - Associated event
- War: First World War (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918)
- Dimensions
- Height x width (photographic print size): 253 x 304mm
- Production place
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Caen Wood Towers [Athlone House]
Highgate
Islington
London - Related place(s)
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Caen Wood Towers [Athlone House]
Highgate
Islington
London - Catalogue number
- PHO13518
The dining room at Caen Wood Towers, a Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital during the First World War
Caen Wood Towers was a large Victorian house in Highgate now known as Athlone House. During the First World War, it was turned into a Voluntary Aid Detachment convalescent hospital, known as the American Hospital for English Soldiers, staffed by nurses from the St John Ambulance Brigade.