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Description: | Activities at Number 13 Convalescent Depot, Trouville, France, summer 1918.
Injured soldiers on wheeled stretchers are taken from a hospital train at the depot. Other soldiers, generally more fit, arrive at the depot in light railway trucks. The troops sit on the ground outside the main depot huts (note the dining hall sign). They are served food from the field kitchens. The base commandant inspects fit men who are ready to leave; they board a train from the depot and are played out by the band. The men at the depot take part in a tug-of-war, a hockey match and a boxing match. Men tend the vegetable and flower gardens outside their Nissen huts. The soldiers play on the beach with local children, practise exercises, and go swimming. A pierrot show entertains the men. More physical training, including a cross-country race and another boxing match.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Convalescent Depot 13 British Army 31/3(44) Children Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Buckstone, Walter A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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