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Description: | image: an orderly bandages the left foot of a bedridden frostbite victim. A metal framework supports the blankets over the
patient's legs, allowing air circulation and preventing direct contact. A kidney dish lies on the bed next to his right foot. Another nurse
folds the blankets back over the cage. There are three figures in the background behind a central pillar. To the upper right of the
composition is a vignette of a naked patient lying on his side on a sloping mattress, facing a screen, behind which a figure advances
holding a basin.
This ward scene appears in a lower section of the Burghclere memorial chapel, to the right of the Resurrection wall. As
an orderly, this was one of the jobs that Spencer did during his time in Beaufort War Hospital after joining the RAMC. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Home Front 1914-1918 interior women / womens work civilian personnel British Army 1914-1918 Military Personnel British Army medical / convalescence Royal Army Medical Corps First World War military suffering | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spencer, Stanley | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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