Photograph of Vernon 6th Viscount Bolingbroke and fellow patients in military hospital , 1918

The photograph shows a group of men who had been invalided out of the battlefield, following active service on the Western Front in World War I.

Vernon Henry St.John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke, is seen standing on the back row, 5th Left. He had been evacuated from France suffering from shell shock and spent three months in the Canadian General Kitchener Military Hospital in Brighton, receiving an honourable discharge on November 6th 1918.

The men are wearing hospital uniform with distinctive white lapels.

The photograph belonged to Lord Bolingbroke and was generously gifted to The Friends of Lydiard Park by a private donor in 2023.