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No. 1 Canadian General Hospital [textual record]

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Date:

1914-1919

Reference:

R611-250-1-E, RG9-III-C-10

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Item ID number:

182703

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No. 1 Canadian General Hospital
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Sub-series includes:

17 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1914-1919

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.1 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series consists of records created and/or maintained by the No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, and document many aspects of its activities.

RG9 III, volume 4563 includes the following files: Report on air raids, 19 and 31 May 1918 ( folder 1, file 1); Boards of inquiry, damage to government property, etc., 8 May 1915-12 Jan. 1916 ( folder 1, file 2); Circular letters re YMCA reciprocal arrangement between British and Cdn governments regarding equipment and supplies, educational schemes, average cost of subsistence in hospitals, hospital evacuation scheme, 17 May 1916- 12 Dec. 1918 ( folder 1, files 3-4); Offers of convalescent homes ( folder 1, file 5); Copies of questionnaires- demobilization, 28 dec. 1918- 29 Jan. 1919 ( folder 1, file 6); Accounts - equipment and supplies, 10 Aug. 1915 - 10 May 1916 ( folder 1, file 7); Location of graves, Bulford and Netheravon ( folder 1, file 8); Diarrhea outbreak, antidotes for poisoning, early treatment of venereal disease, testing of water poisoned by gas, blood donors, 19 June - 27 Dec. 1918 ( folder 2, file 1); Correspondence relating to patients, 1 June 1915-3 May 1917 ( folder 2, file 2); Move from Etaples to Trouville, 24 June -31 July 1918 ( folder 2, file 3); Morning states of the sick, 25 Dec. 1914-5 May 1915 ( folder 2, file 4); Pathological laboratory report, May 1918, dysentery, War Office Pathological Committee, July 1918 ( folder 3, file 1); Tests of sterilization methods, splints for fractures, etc, 15 Sept. 1918-15 Jan. 1919 ( folder 3, file 2); Statistics relating to diseases, operations, patients treated, infections diseases, 21 Oct. 1914 - 12 Feb. 1915 ( folder 3, file 3); Telegrams re closing of hospital, personnel, etc. 24 Oct. 1918 - 30 Jan. 1919 ( folder 3, file 4); X-ray apparatus, report on engine and dynamo, plans of X-ray rooms, 17 June 1915-30 April 1916 ( folder 3, file 5).

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Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian General Hospital Unit, No. 1

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Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian General Hospital Unit, No. 1 : No. 1 Canadian General Hospital (CGH) was organized at Valcartier in September 1914 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Murray McLaren. Most of its personnel were recruited from No. 5 Field Ambulance (Active Militia), Montreal.

No. 1 CGH embarked at Quebec on 30 September 1914 aboard SCANDINAVIAN, disembarking in England on 14 October 1914. Its strength was 30 officers and 168 other ranks. The hospital arrived in France on 14 May 1915 and operated in Étaples from May 1915 to July 1918 and in Trouville from July 1918 to 4 February 1919. No. 1 Canadian General Hospital was demobilized at Montreal in April 1919 and was disbanded by General Order 211 of 15 November 1920.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the consists of fields in the MIKAN record. A paper copy is also available in the Reference room. 9-44-21 (90: Open)

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For related records found elsewhere in this fonds, see the following files: War diary, 14 Oct. 1914 - 11 April 1919 (RG9, III, vol. 5034); Historical record (RG9, III, vol. 4716, folder 108, file 31); Circular re collection of badges (RG9, III, vol. 4716, folder 108, file 32); Correspondence re photograph (RG9, III, vol. 4716, folder 108, file 33); OMFC file (RG9, III, vol. 42, file 8-4-39); Canteens and messes (RG9, III, vol. 392, file C-22-1); Movement (RG9, III, vol. 451, file M-14-1); Shorncliffe files (RG9, III, vol. 703, files H-29-2 and H-30-2); Deaths (RG9, III, vol. 1682, file D-1-12); Miscellaneous correspondence (RG9, III, vols. 1683-1685, file M-1-12); Nominal rolls (RG9, III, vol. 3726); Nominal rolls of nursing sisters (RG9, III, vol. 3736); War diary (RG9, III, vol. 3746, no. 1); Personnel (RG9, III, vol. 3665, file 29-4-1); General correspondence (RG9, III, vol. 3687, file 30-4-1); Nominal roll on leaving Canada, 1914 (RG9, IIB3, vol. 79); Cdn Records Office file (missing) (RG9, III, vol. 1087, file M-4-4).

For related records found in the Department of National Defence fonds, see the following files: Inspection reports, clothing and equipment (RG24, vol. 1576, file HQ 683-200-1); Demobilization (RG24, vol. 1545, file HQ 683-200-2); History (RG24, vol. 1545, file HQ 683-200-3); Organization (RG24, vol. 4495, file 4D. 51-17-1).

This information is based on Barbara Wilson's unpublished Guide to the Sources of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

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RG9-III-C-10
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Volume [RG 9 III-C-10] 4563

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