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Wounded soldiers as stretcher cases being unloaded from train
The first of 139 wounded men arrived at Lower Edmonton low level station on Friday evening, 14th May 1915. A large crown waited there, flowering plants were brought from Barrowfield nurseries, someone produced a Union Jack and "Welcome to our heros" was chalked up on the wall. - [i]History of Enfield[/i], vol.3, p.25.
Photograph by Cyril Marsh Neaves (1877-1934), official photographer of the Middlesex Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), 1914-1918.
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Wounded soldiers as stretcher cases being unloaded from train

The first of 139 wounded men arrived at Lower Edmonton low level station on Friday evening, 14th May 1915. A large crown waited there, flowering plants were brought from Barrowfield nurseries, someone produced a Union Jack and "Welcome to our heros" was chalked up on the wall. - History of Enfield, vol.3, p.25.
Photograph by Cyril Marsh Neaves (1877-1934), official photographer of the Middlesex Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), 1914-1918.

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