part 22 - Driessen archive - Canadian hospital st. Cloud
source: Driessen archive - digital
archivist: Andreas Driessen op ten Bulten
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Canadian hospital at st. Cloud [outside Paris]
brief history:
Situated on Saint-Cloyd racetrack just outside Paris [France].
This was before as stationary hospital no. 4 organized in Montreal [Canada] early 1915, later moved to Kent [UK].
During 20-9-1915 to 8-7-1916 it was at st. Cloud and that day it became known as the no. 8 general hospital.
The no. 8 general hospital stayed at st. Cloud from 8-7-1916 till 12-2-1919 with colonel A. Mignault as commander
and C.A. de Cormier as matron.
On 10-7-1916 till 4-8-1916 was temporarily stationed the general hospital no. 6 [Laval university].
Driessen archive:
1) photo what looks like a Sunday service, purple stamped on the front hopital Canadien, st-Cloud. [22-00101a/b]
2) YMCA hut fund postcard, showing Canadian officers at st. Cloud hospital. [22-00102a/b]