'HS Madras', Hospital Ship Madras, 1914 (c)

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1914 (c).

A ward on the Hospital Ship Madras.

The Hospital Ship Madras was previously the SS Tanda, a British India Steam Navigation Company vessel. Her conversion to a hospital facility was funded by the Madras War Fund. The HMHS Madras reverted to its old name in 1920 and was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in 1944.

From an album of 485 photographs compiled by Sir Ernest William Charles Bradfield (1880-1963), Indian Medical Service. Bradfield commanded the River Ambulance SS Sikkim during the Mesopotamian campaign.