A book : 1914-1919 Allied hospitals at Le Tréport

[jldron]

ts proximity to the Somme front, its port and station gave the city of Le Tréport all the necessary assets to accommodate military hospitals during World War I. The Trianon Hotel, the Golf Hotel, the whole Terraces estate  then uninhabited , hosted a major hospital centre that could receive up to 10,000 wounded, sick and recovering patients. Almost 300,000 soldiers were treated in these hospitals between November 1914 and March 1919. Born in Le Tréport, Jean-Luc Dron is a genealogy and local history enthusiast who discovered the existence of this "Anglo-Canadian camp" through his collection of postcards. The scarcity of information on this subject in the local bibliography coupled with the lack of documents in the French archives (whether municipal, departmental or national) due to the foreign origin of these hospitals prompted him to trace the unknown history of these facilities by visiting foreign archive centres.   This study is based on the war diaries of English and Canadian hospitals as well as other documents held by the National Archives, the war museums of the respective countries and on the local press. A4-sized book (21 x 29.7 cm) - 304 pages - alphabetical name index - written in french with bilingual illustration commentaries- Selling price 25 € (euros)   The units concerned: “No. 3 British General Hospital” “No. 16 British General Hospital” “No. 2 Canadian General Hospital” “No. 1 V.A.D. Camp” “No. 10 Motor Ambulance Convoy” “No. 3 Convalescent Camp” “No. 10 B.R.C.S. Hospital” “No. 47 British General Hospital” “No. 7 Canadian General Hospital”

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[Ron Clifton]

A rare illustration showing "hospital blues" actually in colour!

 

Thanks for posting this, M Dron, and for your efforts in compiling it.

 

Ron

[jldron]

Hello Ron,

It's a black & white photo that I had to colorize. : http://histoire.de.couleurs.free.fr/

Jean-Luc

[Marilyne]

good evening,

 

Starting the research for the ladies of Le Tréport and Mont Huon for my project, I just sent a mail to Mr Dron about his book, looking forward to the response...

 

Some quite interesting ladies passed in Le Tréport, if I might say so… Edie Appleton, Elsie Tranter (was not stationned there, but visited a few times), Dorothea Crewdson. It's interesting to discover the place through the eyes of the nurses.

 

M.

 

M.

 

[Marilyne]

Got the book!!

the only good thing about confinement… I'll have time to read it in the next couple of days…

 

M.