Gilbert Spencer
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Gilbert Spencer was a British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations. He worked in oils and watercolour. He was the younger brother of the painter Stanley Spencer.
A 1926 photo of Gilbert Spencer by Lady Ottoline Morrell
The Music Room in T. E. Lawrence's home, Clouds Hill; above the window is a landscape painting of Clouds Hill by Gilbert Spencer
Beaufort War Hospital
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Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, a
Gilbert Spencer
…pacifist misgivings on the part of both themselves and their mother, both Stanley and Gilbert served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially at the Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol. Gilbert was then drafted to the Macedonian front, serving in Salonika and in the Eastern Mediterranean 1915–19. He returned to his studies…
Beaufort War Hospital, with patients on lawn
Aerial photograph of the main buildings