Lady Cooper's Hospital, Hursley Park, Winchester, 1917

Photograph by Lieutenant E H C Frith, Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry), World War One (1914-1918), 1917.

The hospital was opened in 1914 and was a privately staffed auxiliary hospital for officers, linked to the Winchester Military Hospital in Peninsular Barracks. It occupied parts of the ground and upper floors of Hursley House and had 50 beds. By the end of the First World War the hospital had cared for over 1,000 officers.

One of 33 photographs taken by Lieutenant Sir Eric Herbert Cokayne Frith (1897-1984), Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry), at Lady Cooper's Hospital, Hursley Park, Winchester, 1917. Firth was a patient at the hospital after being wounded in France.