Disabled ex-servicemen receive gifts in hospital (1949)
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American ambassador visits veterans hospital and brings equipment to help the disabled
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DISABLED PEOPLE Shot of Roehampton Hospital and man on crutches walking across grounds. page-turning device for armless ex-service men in the hospital by Mrs Lewid Douglas and gift from America. watched Man lying prone with device showing print projected on the ceiling.
MR LEWIS DOUGLAS and WIFE Mrs Lewis Douglas watches patient using device - projecting print on to ceiling for reading.
DOUGLAS, Lewis Williams, American diplomat (1894-1974)
DOUGLAS, Peggy Zinsser (d. 1992)
ROEHAMPTON Good shot of hospital with man in crutches walking in foreground. Shots of limbless man with page turning device for reading. Another man in the prone position with device for projecting print on to ceilin
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