Cheering Up the Wounded in the Hospital

Category

Library Item

Item no

32750

Title

Cheering Up the Wounded in the Hospital: Music in the Wards at Christmas-Time

Description

From the Illustrated London News published December 22nd, 1917, page 787. Drawn by A. Forestier. Full title: Visitors of the kind who are always welcome: Ladies entertaining wounded men in a ward of a military hospital

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1917

Size

39.6 x 53.4 cm

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Location

Reference Library

All the warring nations of the First World War understood the value of entertaining their troops and this included and extended to those recovering in hospital wards. These injured soldiers had seen and experienced the worse of combat, and now in recuperation, needed the entertainments and delights from their peace-time lives to boost their morale and speed their recovery. Prominent society women often hosted events with music and comedy to lift the wounded men's spirits.

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