Soldiers in the ward at Bailleul, 1915

Photograph by Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Dent, Royal Army Medical Corps, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915.

The hospital at Bailleul was situated about nine miles from the Ypres Salient. It was staffed by the 1/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance, a unit commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Dent, a Territorial Force officer.

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'.