Great Dixter, Northiam, East Sussex

Great Dixter, Northiam, East Sussex

Photograph taken 6 July 1918 © Historic England Archive ref: CC002810

A view showing Red Cross staff and patients posed outside Great Dixter. The house was used as a convalescence home for wounded soldiers during World War One.

Location

East Sussex Northiam

Period

World War One (1914 - 1919)

Themes

Thousands of soldiers were stationed in training camps near to the village of Fovant, Wiltshire during the 1914-1918 war. In memory of those who died on the battlefields, many regiments created replica cap badges on the adjacent chalk downs by turf cutting and infilling with chalk. Although many badges have not survived, several were recently restored and are now Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

World War One

Tags

portrait soldier military army uniform casualty injury nurse women work patient red cross world war one (1914 - 1919)