photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2002-10-84-17

Description

Convalescing soldiers at Felthorpe Hall, Norfolk, 1915 (c) -1917 (c). The men wear blue woollen hospital suits with peaked forage caps. The caps bear the badges of the men’s Regiment and include the Royal Fusiliers amongst others. Felthorpe Hall in Norwich was an auxiliary hospital run by the British Red Cross. It cared for around 430 patients between November 1914 and its closure in January 1919. One of 17 photographs relating to Pte Frank Stupple, Queen Victoria's Rifles, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1915-1917.

Campaigns

World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)