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Photograph of tent hospital at Arques, France

Item is a photograph of the tent hospital at Arques, France, ca. 1917. A canal is in the background and officer tents can be seen through the trees. The hospital was later replaced by nissen huts.

Rev. Mitchell

1 b/w print. On back of print: "Rev Mitchell who came over with us as a private - received his Commission in Eng. Came to France as Padre to our Unit."

Nursing Sisters in front of tent

Nursing Sisters have been identified from left to right: Sadie McLeod; J. A. Davidson; M. M. E. Chisholm; Laura May Hubley; J. M.Mitchell; rest of the women are unidentified.
Note on back of photograph " Outside my office having morning lunch. I am cutting the bread, Sisters nearly all have their gowns on."

The men in Argues, France

On back of photograph : "Argues, France. Where did they get all the dogs?" Men identified in the photograph are: (Back row standing) 4th - Neil Rattee, 5th - Stewart MacKinnon (?), 7th - Lewis Morrison; (Middle Row) 3rd - Frank Chute, 4th - Duncan Strong, 6th G.H. James; (Sitting in Front) Paddy Colgan.

In front of a fence

Postcard includes 3 nursing sisters (Laura May Hubley is in the middle) and 2 officers.

Laura May Hubley in her tent

On back of print: "Sitting at my table in my tent office quite Indian like. Will always want to live in a tent after this. I am trying to work the Quarter Master - so I can get this one to take home with me. Lovely sleeping out a hot night."

Officers, Variously identified

It is thought that the officers were: Capt. Karl F. Woodbury; Capt. Dan. Angus MacLeod; Col. John Stewart; Father MacQuillian; Major Col. E. V. Hogan; Lt. S. R. Balcom; Capt. Jason Murray.

Some of the Members of Parliament from Atlantic Canada, 1956

Standing up from Left to Right: Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk (Yarmouth); William Murdoch (Bill) Buchanan (Cape Breton); Jack Lusky (Halifax Herald Reporter); Wesley Stuart (St. Andrews, N.B.); John Dickey (Halifax); James Augustine (Jim) Power (St. John's, NFLD); Azel Randolph Lusby (Cumberland); Samuel R. Balcom (Halifax)
Sitting: J. Ralph Kirk (Antigonish); Henry Byron McCulloch (Pictou); Gordon Purdy (Colchester)
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