{"id":10532,"date":"2015-01-21T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2015-01-21T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:00:37","slug":"base-hospital-opens-for-canadians-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/base-hospital-opens-for-canadians-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"BASE HOSPITAL OPENS FOR CANADIANS IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thursday, January 21, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cMusketry on Durrington Range. Snow.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/21-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10286 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/21-Jan-15-300x209.png\" alt=\"21 Jan 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0London, January 20.\u00a0 \u2013 One of the most fully equipped military hospitals in England is that on the Astor estate at Clevedon[sic] near London which opens next Monday.\u00a0 It has been established as the Canadian base hospital where all the troops invalided from France are to be treated.\u00a0 Colonel Hodgetts of the Canadian Red Cross obtained it.<\/p>\n<p>No new cases of spinal meningitis have developed and Col. Jones the director of the medical service states that the epidemic has been fully checked.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Connaught\u2019s Red Cross Hospital, Taplow (Clivedon), The offer by Major and Mrs. Waldorf Astor of buildings at their estate, Clivedon, specifically the tennis pavilion and bowling alley, for use as a hospital was accepted in November 1914. \u00a0Designated as the Duchess of Connaught\u2019s Red Cross Hospital, it was later known as No. 15 Canadian General Hospital.\u00a0 It was equipped by the Canadian Red Cross, and staffed by the Canadian Army Medical Corps. \u00a0American-born Nancy Astor was popular with the patients, whom she regularly visited.\u00a0\u00a0 This photo shows how the initial facilities grew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/21-Jan-15_B.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10533 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/21-Jan-15_B-300x202.png\" alt=\"21 Jan 15_B\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>After the War, Sir Robert Borden unveiled a memorial to Canadian officers and men who died at the Duchess of Connaught\u2019s Red Cross Hospital at Taplow.\u00a0 The old Italian garden in the grounds of \u201cCliveden,\u201d was transformed into a cemetery for Canadians who died in the hospital.\u00a0 Now known as The Cliveden War Cemetery, it contains 40 First World War burials, and the majority of them Canadian, are associated with the hospital.\u00a0 The cemetery also contains two Second World War graves and two American War Graves from the First World War.\u00a0 The estate itself, near the river Thames, is now a National Trust property.<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 21, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBase Hospital Opens Monday For Canadians,\u201d J.A. MacLaren, <em>The Toronto World,<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, January 21, 1915, pg. 1, col. 4.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Photo:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdrum.com\/books\/the-summer-before-the-storm\/166334\/bookmark\/168482.html\">http:\/\/www.bookdrum.com\/books\/the-summer-before-the-storm\/166334\/bookmark\/168482.html<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 21, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMusketry on Durrington Range. Snow.\u201d [1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0London, January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}