English: Richard Ellis, Hospital ward (likely Cottonera), Malta in WW1 The scene is a hospital ward and everybody is posing for the picture, a rare thing in those days. In this picture, patients pose with two sisters, probably nurses, and what looks like a doctor wearing a white overall. One man's head is almost completely bandaged while another holds a cigarette in his mouth. A gramaphone takes a strange pride of place - it was probably a treat and a great source of comfortable distraction.