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[Old Bill]

Apologies for posting a separate thread in addition to my post on another thread.  However, I am leading a school visit to the battlefields next week and would like to visit Pervyse to tell my pupils about Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker.  Does anyone know the location of the dressing station they used?

[Sue Light]

There are some clues in this thread:

http://1914-1918.inv...howtopic=103157

Sue

[munster]

If a recent TV show is right the dressing station was and is in the cellar of a house in the town i believe it was only just to the rear of the line which was purported on the show to have disected the town.john

[Old Bill]

Thanks for the replies.  I don't have a copy of the Not Forgotten prog.  I was hoping someone might be able to pin things down a little.  Pervyse is certainly not a large town.  A google search on Pervyse + school seems to show a building at the centre of the town - labelled Ten Bercle.  On street map it looks similar to the building shown here but with an additional wing built on.  Is that the one?

[Old Bill]

Just came across this pic on a website here So getting closer!

[munster]

Whilst the school rings bells for me if i am not mistaken the program also showed the cellar of a house.john

[munster]

From the 1917 edition of The Cellar House Book.john

I have this as an e-book but there is no pdf link on the properties to send you a copy.john

Edited by munster, 17 June 2012 - 12:20 PM.