The Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux

Tents after storm, Australian Voluntary Hospital, probably November 1914.
Papers Ida Mary Greaves GA106 courtesy Trish Hayes. Click on image to enlarge.

Nurses’ quarters AVH. Papers Ida Mary Greaves GA161. Courtesy Trish Hayes.  Click on image to enlarge.

Golf Club House. Officers’ Mess AVH. Papers Ida Mary Greaves GA234, courtesy Trish Hayes

Major Robert Dick, writing in Winter, described the weather at Wimereux as “dreadful” – windy, cold and wet with the sun putting in very brief appearances.  (Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate 29 January 1915, p5 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138220558 accessed 30 January 2018)

 

 

AVH after a snowstorm. Papers Ida Mary Greaves GA233 courtesy Trish Hayes. Click on image to enlarge.