Nevers France During WW1

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Nevers France During WW1

Nevers was about 18 to 20 miles away for Veterinary Hospital No 18 and I am sure my grandfather spend a lot of time there. With the railroad running through the camp I am guessing it was pretty easy to just jump on a train and be in Nevers or Paris in no time. Below are a few pictures of Nevers. The Nevers area covered 22 different camps, whose military population was about 50,000. Nearly every arm or department of service was represented. There were aviation camps, railroad engineers and railroad operators, labor battalions, motor repair units, a remount station, hospital units, and many others. There were several thousand German prisoners and nearly a thousand homeless Russians. At the time of the Armistice there were 30,000 patients in the great hospitals at Mesves and Mars-sur-Allier. Camp Stephenson, where three thousand men of the Railway Engineer units were building and repairing locomotives, was one of the most interesting stations in the Nevers area. When the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, the AEF operated 153 base hospitals, 66 camp hospitals, 12 convalescent hospitals, 21 hospital trains, and 6875 ambulances. Official records of the US Army Nursing Corps show that 136 nurses died in the conflict, none as a result of enemy fire

As I do my research on the Veterinary Corps I always find interesting material. I was amazed to find so many Regular US Army Hospital in the area of Nevers below is a list of those hospitals

US Army Hospitals around Sougy France

Base Hospital No 14, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 35, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Barracks
Base Hospital No 44, Pouges-les-Eaux, Nièvre, Building used Hotels
Base Hospital No 48, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 50, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 54, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit And Tents
Base Hospital No 62, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit And Tents
Base Hospital No 67, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit And Tents
Base Hospital No 68, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 72, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Barracks
Base Hospital No 86, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit And Tents
Base Hospital No 89, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 107, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 108, Mesves, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 110, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 123, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit
Base Hospital No 131, Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, Building used Type A Unit

Source: Great War Society http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/basehosp.htm

From Nevers to Sougy is about 17.5 miles or 32 minutes
From Nevers to Mesves it is 23.5 miles or 29 minutes
From Nevers to Mars-sur-Allier 11.75 miles or 25 minutes
From Sougy to Mars-sur-Allier it is 22.5 miles or 40 minutes
From Sougy to Mesves it is 38.5 miles or 48 minutes
From Sougy to Pouges-les-Eaux it is 28 miles or 41 minutes
From Sougy to Paris it 167 miles or 2 hours and 45 minute
NOTE: Above times are using today’s modern transportation

Nevers, Valley of the Loire looking down stream

Railroad station at Nevers, France

US Army Camp and shops at Nevers, France WW1

Railroad turn table at Nevers, France WW1

The above 1909 map of Nevers France is probably very close to what it looked like during WW1

Above todays current road map shows the city of Nevers center left, Sougy is southeast, Mars-sur-Allier is southwest, Pouges-les-Eaux north of Nevers and Mesves is just a little north of Pouges-les-Eaux and is not on this map. Look for the small RED DOTS.

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Veterinary Corps in WW1

Leonard Murphy in WW1