A French Vicar Visits Wounded Allied POWs in Cambrai

Notes:

A French Roman Catholic Vicar General visits with the wounded in a ward in Hospital 106 in Cambrai. Once prisoners recovered and became ambulatory, the Germans sent them to prison camps in Germany. If their wounds persisted, they would be assigned to the prison hospital lazaret until they recovered.

Date Created:

1914-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Medical Care, Religion, Hospital, Ward, Priest, Allied POWs, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Malcolm V. Hay, Wounded and a Prisoner of War: By an Exchange Officer, London: Blackwood, 1916, 192B.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/295