Translations:CP 02906/17/en
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- ↑ Salvange château, situated near Rarécourt (in the Meuse department) twenty five kilometres South West of Verdun, in Argonne, was the location of field hospital no. 5/55 from 10 December 1914 to 26 June 1916 (see the website Histoire des hôpitaux militaires et du service de santé durant les deux guerres mondiales, section "Ambulances 1914-1918", under letter R). Robert Proust's entry in the register of military enrollments does not show with any precision his various postings between winter 1914-15 and 11 May 1915, the date on which he took command of the first mobile surgical field hospital, in the Arras region. Mention of his posting as "temporary surgeon with field hospital 4/55" from November 1914 does not name any precise location; the present letter from Proust to Mme Catusse suggests that he did not stay at the Salvange military hospital until May 1915. (Besides, hospital number 4/55 quoted on his military record does not correspond to Salvange hospital, number 5/55: perhaps he only stayed there a short time). [PK, FL]