'Base Hospital Basra', No 3 British General Hospital, Basra, Mesopotamia, 1915 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

According to the 'Medical History of the War', Volume IV, the No 3 British General Hospital occupied a palace of the Sheikh of Mohammera on the right bank of the River Tigris, its 'ground floor was somewhat damp and dark, but the first floor was bright and airy'. Steamers would transport casualties to a wooden pier on the riverbank. The hospital could apparently house 150 patients with Indian Army casualties being relegated to tents set up in in the palace grounds.

From an album of 210 photographs compiled by Lieutenant Henry Curtis Gallup during his service with the 5th Hampshire Howitzer Battery (Territorial Force) in Mesopotamia during World War One (1914-1918), 1915-1916.