Peter - see "Twenty Years After; The Battlefields of 1914-18; Then And Now", Maj. Gen Sir Ernest Swinton, Supplementary Volume ("volume 3") - Chapter XXXIII - "The Bull Ring At Etaples". .......................... " .. the writer of the present chapter is obviously not one of those who would have selected Etaples as a rest for the sensitive or the weary." ....... (!) You will also find an amount of 53rd hand writings about Etaples on the www - on the much admired and (notoriously) historically accurate "Wicki(censored !)", etc. Having said that, the place obviously wasn't Billy Butlins, but then it wasn't intended to be, was it ! More "factual" material, - the Etaples Base Commandants files are at The National Archives, document boxes WO95/4026 and 4027; the Assistant Director of Medical Services files are in WO95/4028; the Etaples Area Controllers files are WO95/85; there are schedules of works and plans in WO106/1477, and reports of German bombing of the hospitals at Etaples in WO32/5189. regards - Tom Tulloch-Marshall WW1 Military Research website > http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html