Clovis TROUILLE (1889-1975) May Borden-Turner represented as - Lot 31

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Clovis TROUILLE (1889-1975) May Borden-Turner represented as - Lot 31
Clovis TROUILLE (1889-1975) May Borden-Turner represented as a squire, 1917 Watercolour drawing Signed lower right, Camille Trouille 35 x 25 cm M. A. S. H. 1917 A few portraits, a lot of humour, caricatures, gentleness, compassion and sympathy, as if to exorcise the horror of the hundreds of wounded, moribund people with dislocated bodies, who arrive every day. A recurring theme, the woman, the nurses, with one of them standing out, blonde, pretty, named on the back of a dessin : Mme Borden-Turner. Like Clovis Trouille, research on her is not difficult. This American billionaire has just been the subject of a biography1 , in which the years 1916-1917 are evoked. From the very beginning of the hostilities, May Borden-Turner, who was the age of the young men incorporated, wanted to take part in the war effort. She wrote to General Joffre to propose that he make two hundred thousand francs available to her and manage her own hospital. At first the authorities were reluctant, as the United States was not yet at war. Finally, General Joffre agreed to the creation of a hospital attached to the 6th army, under the command of General Fayolle. Located at Bray-sur-Somme - five kilometres from the Front - it had a total capacity of two thousand beds. It is the most important "H. O. E." (Orientation and Evacuation Hospital) of the French army. During its first six weeks, the H.O. E. receives twenty-five thousand wounded. The vocation of these hospitals at the mercy of the Front's evolutions, generally located a few kilometres away, was to orientate and evacuate the wounded. Some were quickly sent back to the fighting after some minor treatment, others to the rear, and the most badly wounded were kept for some time before being sent to the morgue. On 8 octobre 1916, May Borden arrived on site. Under the command of Chief Medical Officer Ollivier, with the help of her twelve nurses, she concentrated her efforts on an eight hundred-bed unit, called "Le Grand Quartier",
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