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No. 5 Canadian General Hospital, Kirkdale [textual record]
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Record information No. 5 Canadian General Hospital, Kirkdale [textual record]
Date:[ca. 1915-1920].Reference:R611-304-9-E, RG9-III-B-1-39, series 39Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:182947Date(s):[ca. 1915-1920].Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:6.3 m of textual recordsLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Sub-series consists of the administrative records of No. 5 Canadian General Hospital, Kirkdale.Biography/Administrative history:Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian General Hospital Unit, No. 5 : No. 5 Canadian General Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) was organized at Victoria in June 1915 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel E.C. Hart. Its authorization was published in General Order 103a of 15 August 1915.
No. 5 Canadian General Hospital left Montreal on 27 August 1915 aboard SCANDIVANIAN, arriving in England on 4 September. Its strength was 31 officers, 72 nursing sisters, and 203 other ranks. No. 5 administered Shorncliffe Military Hospital from 6 October to 12 November 1915. It arrived at Salonika in December 1915 aboard ASTURIAS where it remained until August 1917. No. 5 Canadian General Hospital returned to England in September 1917and took over Canadian Military Hospital, Kirkdale, Liverpool which had been authorized in May 1917 and was the clearing hospital for wounded soldiers returning to Canada. The Hospital closed on 26 November 1919 and was disbanded by General Order 211 of 15 November 1920.
The Hospital published "The Blister" and then "Convoy Call" between June and December 1916 (see RG9-III, vol. 6077).Additional information:Source of title:Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.Custodial history:The records in this sub-series were sent to the Canadian War Records Office at the end of the war and were subsequently transferred to Ottawa where they were sorted and filed by subject and arranged into series by the Army Historical Section.Accruals:No further accruals are expected.Source:GovernmentFormer archival reference no.:RG9-III-B-1-39
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