Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 91 was born in 1884 and died in 1918 when the Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle Hospital ship was torpedoed. Marjorie is remembered on a Monument with her brother Laurie Fraser in Riverside Cemetery in New Glasgow, who died in the trench in France 3 months after his sister Marjorie. No. 2 Stationary Hospital was granted the distinction of being the first of all Canadian units to place foot upon French soil. This unit, under Lieutenant-Colonel Shillington, after the inspection by Their Majesties the King and Queen two days previously, left the Plain on November 6th, 1914. At Southampton the O.C. was detained by arrangements concerning the nursing sisters, and thus it devolved upon Major H. C. S. Elliot, 61 the second in command, to take the unit across the Channel to Havre. For a few days it was billeted at Boulogne. On November 27th it opened up the well-known Hôtel du Golf at Le Touquet, on the dunes near Paris Plage, as a hospital of three hundred beds – the first of a series of Canadian base hospitals along the French coast between Boulogne and Dieppe. Starting with 320 beds, the hospital quickly expanded to 520. The Nursing Staff of 35 had arrived in November of 1914. In March 1915, 10 re-inforcements arrived, increasing the total Nursing Staff to 42. In September, 1915, the unit moved to Outreau, taking over the site of No.2, British Stationary Hospital. continued ... By Frank Paylor of Sudbury, Ontario When you are feeling sick, or worse, thank your dear Maker for your nurse Whose tender care and ministrations are worth sincere congratulations. The shattered limb, the fevered brow are much the same to her somehow. There is a need, a chance to heal, to ease the pain that you might feel. Through all those precious smiles and words of comfort, as she tends With all her sharpened skills and guiles without complaint, she mends. Then there comes the day when you are sent upon your way -- and you discover, in the end, that you have had a pleasant visit with a very special friend. CAMC capbadge (Canadian Army Medical Corps) No. 2, Canadian Stationary Hospital, Le Touquet, Boulogne, the “beautiful summer hotel” mentioned by Harriet in her letter, is in the background.
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