A mobile x-ray unit at Bailleul, 1915

Photograph by Lieutenant-Colonel Howard H C Dent, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915.

There were six mobile x-ray units serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium. Other x-ray units were attached to divisional casualty clearing stations. Dent was the commanding officer of the 1/3 North Midland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), attached to the 46th Division.

From an album of photographs, inscribed, 'Photographs taken at the Front 1915 H.H.C. Dent OC 1/3 North Midland Field Ambulance RAMC 46 Division'.