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58349: Postcard from a grateful patient

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posted on 2024-02-23, 22:59 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

Postcard Front: L'Hotel des Ionvalides, Paris ('the seat of the military headquarters'?).

The reverse is hand-written from a grateful French patient (signed 'Balles'?), addressed to my grandfather Dr E Bertram Smith reverse: from to Dr Smith (who served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, but was seconded to the Red Cross at the Queen Alexandra hospital, Malo-les-Bains, Dunkirk). Posted in Malo-les-Bains. Post marked in Sept and Oct 1918, but also in 1916.

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Identifier

8702.cpd| 2222.jpg|GWA_0128_impostcard1a.jpg 2223.jpg|GWA_0129_lmpostarc1b.jpg

Subject

Smith, Dr E Bertram

Date

September 1918 | September 1918

Date Created

01/09/1918

Temporal Coverage

30/09/1918

Source

Postcard

Medium

Card

Type

Postcard

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Kate Lindsay | Guy Matthews

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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