Stock Photo - Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington VAD, Major PHG Powell-Cotton and the family's Nanny Mrs Cook with three of the children (left to right) Antoinette Powell-Cotton (1913-1997), Christopher Powell-Cotton (1918-2006) and Mary Powell-Cotton (1910-1998). The donkey, named 'Jenny' has a basket seat on her back in which baby Christopher is sitting. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum.

Stock Photo: Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington VAD, Major PHG Powell-Cotton and the family's Nanny Mrs Cook with three of the children.

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