Mrs. Harley opens hospital (1915)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Various scenes of nurses and patients at open air hospital, Katherine Harley (sister of General John French, first commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force) offering cigarettes to patients Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Open Air Hospital FRANCE: Troyes: EXT TITLE: General French’s sister, Mrs. Harley, opens new hospital at Troyes. SV. back view nurses carrying stretcher to hospital tent. GV. patients and nurses in hospital grounds. SCU. Mrs. Harley lights cigarette for patient in bed. SV. Mrs. Harley talking with other patients. SCU. Mrs. Harley offering cigarette to patients in deck chair. Personalities - Relatives, Ceremonies - Inauguration, Medicine and Health, Period Attitudes, France Katherine Mary Harley, Lord French, General French, hospitals, Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, BEF Background