| During the
First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the
southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General
Headquarters were also established in the city. Almost all of the hospitals at
Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight
general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and
No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried
in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of
St. Sever. |