Back to Blighty The Medical Front in Tunbridge Wells

The “Back to Blighty” exhibition opened at Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery on the 25th July with a very kind speech from Baroness Emerton (former Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority, and Chancellor and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance), and has already seen great numbers of visitors fascinated by the local angle on a national story. From late September 1914 wounded British Army and Belgian soldiers began to arrive from the continent. The General Hospital in Tunbridge Wells received the more seriously injured soldiers, with the auxiliary Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) hospitals across the borough mainly treating convalescents.

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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000374?id=EVENT499305