Looking at some pictures of something else....

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..... meant I just tapped idly on another picture, which by chance brought me to:

https://www.med-dept.com/unit-histories/60th-field-hospital/

Nothing extraordinary in it, it was after all one of maybe tens of similar units, but that is not by any means meant to belittle their selfless efforts. But as a well documented snapshot of what went on, it’s interesting. Not least, the list of places the three medical platoons making up the unit were in action will ring lots of bells here; I myself have been through or stayed in several of them. How very different the places would have been in 1944 and 1945 and how lucky we are to be able to go to see them today without being blown apart. It puts moaning about being kept in by a virus (but otherwise, touch wood, reasonably healthy) into perspective.
 


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