Simon_Fielding Posted 2 September , 2017 Share Posted 2 September , 2017 Couldn't resist this in the junk shop today: seems to be labelled 'the college' Dieppe and the medical staff have signed the photograph: looks like a British officer atthe back and the signature looks like L Bennett. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 2 September , 2017 Author Share Posted 2 September , 2017 (edited) Looking at Lt LB Burnett RAMC... ...but he's NZ and doesn't seem to have served in Europe. ... Edited 2 September , 2017 by Simon_Fielding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 September , 2017 Share Posted 2 September , 2017 (edited) How nice!! Is it possible that it is the nurse who is named Bennett, not the older officer behind her-Otherwise, why would it be signed where it is?? Could this be the Hopital de l'Alliance at Dieppe-which,,as the name suggests was initially a voluntary Anglo-French hospital set up in a college there (a Jesuit college?) Edited 2 September , 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 3 September , 2017 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2017 Google implies that the College was outside Dieppe - is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 3 September , 2017 Share Posted 3 September , 2017 45 minutes ago, Simon_Fielding said: Google implies that the College was outside Dieppe - is that right? Not at all sure- I only came across a college at Dieppe years ago when researching a local British casualty-who had been to a "Naval College" there- Someone English at a French college stayed in the back of my mind as unusual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 3 September , 2017 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2017 Useful list of French hospitals here: http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/Forum-Pages-d-Histoire-service-sante-1914-1918/hopitaux-militaires-rm-sujet_53_1.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 4 September , 2017 Author Share Posted 4 September , 2017 I've been in touch with François Olier who is the authority on WW1 French medical services : Your picture was taken at the entrance of the "hôpital complémentaire" n°37, annex, located at the "Collège municipal", Quai Henri IV (142 beds). (F. OLIER, J.L. QUENECHDU, Hôpitaux militaires dans la guerre 1914-1918, Louviers, 2008, tome 1, p. 97) I enclose a copy of a postcard (circa 1900) where you can see the entrance and the gates ... I have no further information on this hospital or its staff. Sorry to not be able to do more Some very excellent knowledgeable people out there SF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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