The outset of World War One brought the de Glehns’ continental excursions with Sargent to a permanent halt. Sargent spent increasing periods of time in the US and Wilfrid and Jane took on a variety of roles as part of the war effort. Wilfrid initially drilled with the Artist’s Rifles at Burlington House and both of them worked at the Field Hospital at Arc-en-Barrois in the Haute Marne. Jane was a nurse and Wilfrid an operator of the new-fangled X-ray machine. Wilfrid painted a large oil of soldiers and nurses in the grounds of the hospital as well as impressionistic watercolour sketches of groups of patients. Jane also drew a large number of sensitive pastel studies of her charges.

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