Military Hospital

[horseshoes]

http://i53.tinypic.com/2ecd8hc.jpg

I posted this in Military earlier but haven't had any replies as yet. I'm wondering are some of these gentlemen prisoners of war perhaps?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Caran]

sorry don't recognise anyone

[dotty.]

Why do you think that it is a military hospital? The nurses uniforms look just like my mum's student uniform from 1948 when she nursed suffrerers of TB and typhoid at Monsell near manchester

[horseshoes]

Dotty, I thought military hospital because a coule of these gentleman are obviously in uniform. Possbly not a military hospital then, just one that had an intake of soldiers. I still think that some of them look as if they may be prisoners of war, as they have uniforms but not British ones. Plus the fact they were in a lot of other photos of soldiers.

[dotty.]

I think the metal style windows could be in either a civilian or military hospital, but there is one thing that may be worth considering, they are all outside and enjoying what looks like a sunny day, could that be to do with TB?

[craft1948]

I think it looks like a TB sanitorium with all the doors and windows open wide (my sister was in one in 1952)

[sandyRoe]

I think the men on the left front of each picture are wearing a class of uniform that was issued to wounded British Soldiers.

[Sqad]

If it was a sunny day, then if they did have PTB then they would have been inside, not in direct sunlight which would have exacerbated their disease.

[horseshoes]

I see what you mean Dotty. My own Grandad had TB and so did my Mum. Grandad died in 1952 - 2 years before I was born. My Mum survived it. I do know they both spent time in the "fever" hospital. Doesn't really explain why they are wearing uniforms though.