A rare presentation book containing 92 period photos concerning the Hospital l'Ocean.
The book was presented to 'Madame Evans'.
Extensive research has failed to find another such book although some of the photos are also in the archive of UCLouvain university.
Some of the readily identifiable photos have had a removeable note added.
A rare and valuable archive!Hospital L'Océan was a military hospital during the First World War at De Panne, West Flanders, Belgium. It was established on Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria's behalf by Doctor Antoine Depage and his wife, Marie Depage (Born Picard), who died during the RMS Lusitania disaster, and Archibald Alexander Gordon alias Major Gordon. The hospital was located in the former summer vacation Hotel L'Océan owned by the Huysseune family and built-in 1904. She was opened on 18 December 1914 by Antoine Depage, and the five-story high hospital maintained two operation rooms, two hundred beds, a dentist practice and a biomedical laboratory. During the war, many Belgian, British, French, American, Canadian, Danish, and even New Zealand nurses volunteered in the hospital; together, they nursed 19.375 wounded soldiers until it closed on 15 October 1919 after a Spanish flu outbreak. The building was later torn down. Today a memorial plaque for the hospital stands at 70, Zeedijk in De Panne.
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