Hi Nicola, An amendment to an earlier posting. The No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital was located in Boulogne in 1916, but in Doullens in the timeframe you are asking about. Janice USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicola Butler" <local_history@ntlworld.com> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 7:54 AM Subject: [GREATWAR] Lancashire Fusiliers and the Somme 1918 > Hi List > > I haven't had much luck with my queries before but I'm desperate for some > help. > > My ancestor died in June 1918 at 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital in > Doullens. I am wanting to visit the area next year and would like to do > some background research about the battles, so I'm not just looking at > open fields! I want to be able to see in my head where he would have been > and what he may have encountered. Events leading up to his death etc. I > know he was buried in the Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery. > > He was in the 17th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers and enlisted in Woolwich > (previously he was in the RAVC). I have looked at a few websites but > cannot see a particular battle that was happening there at the time of his > injury. > > Any help will be gratefully received as I am getting nowhere fast. > > Thanks. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nottinghamshire_genealogy/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message