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'Nah-pooh' is in the lyrics to that song 'Good-byee', isn't it? "Bonsoir old thing, cheerio, chin-chin; nah-poo, toodle-oo, good-byee..."

Dru You are dead right, thank you! I couldn't understand what Nah-Pooh was about at all - so pleased...

Very nice!

According to this website, "No.11 General Hospital" was at Genoa in Italy - www.anzacday.org.au/digging/hospitals.html

From a nurse's account of life there - www.scarletfinders.co.uk/153.html

There was one General and two Stationary Hospitals at Genoa. The first in a large hotel, the others in schools. Two of them already had patients and the other was being put in order. As there was no heating in the hotel, the building was intensely cold; it was, however, a very fine hotel with a marble staircase and beautiful baths, though at the time the baths were of little use, as there was no hot water. In the schools were some stoves which the patients thoroughly enjoyed. Later on we had an Infectious Hospital at Genoa, also a very nice hostel for sisters coming from the United Kingdom or moving about the country.

Imperial War Museum site describes this as follows:
"THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918

part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer) 1918-09-06

Q 7059

Battle of the Drocourt- Queant Line. Royal Engineers laying the railroad at Ecoust, 6 September 1918."


THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918© IWM (Q 7059)


THE HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1918© IWM (Q 7060)
see also
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Drocourt-Qu%C3%A9ant_Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89coust-Saint-Mein

Retired at last: Thanks for catching the date of this photo. We will add it to the image description.

Agence Meurisse photo at Gallica site is another view of this funeral cortege, taken a little bit earlier. It seems Gallica either does not have all of its Meurisse photos digitized, or that LOC has some Meurisse photos in its collection that the Bibliotheque Nationale de France does not. (Bain's negative has Meurisse catalog number at upper right) caption; Enterrement de soldats anglais à Versailles gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90419017