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‘HS Madras’, Hospital Ship Madras, 1914 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1964-09-99-127

Description

‘HS Madras’, Hospital Ship Madras, 1914 (c). Photograph, World War One, Mesoppotamia (1914-1918), 1915 (c). A deck on the Hospital Ship Madras with sun loungers and deck chairs. The Hospital Ship Madras was previously the SS Tanda, a British India Steam Navigation Company vessel. Her conversion to a hospital facility was funded by the Madras War Fund. The HMHS Madras reverted to its old name in 1920 and was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in 1944. From an album of 474 photographs compiled by Sir Ernest William Charles Bradfield (1880-1963), Indian Medical Service. Bradfield commanded the River Ambulance SS Sikkim during the Mesopotamian campaign. Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).

Campaigns

World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)

Associated collection