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Photograph of a three convalescent soldiers and two nurses, standing on the lawn outside Auchtyfardle House, now serving as Auchtyfardle Auxiliary Hospital, in Lesmahagow, Scotland, 1916 (c). Pte. Frederick Souster, 2nd (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), was sent here after leaving Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, in August 1916. Souster was shot and wounded on the 1st July 1916 at Gommecourt Wood during the Battle of the Somme. The castle-like house, set amongst trees, was run as a Volunteer Aid Detachment convalescent hospital during the War. From an album containing 97 photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings relating to Pte Frederick Souster, 2nd (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1917. Associated with World War One (1914-1918).

Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)