'Goodbye to France', 1940-01 - 2019-12

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0272/SC/ColeL

Scope and Contents

Memoir written by Cole of his service during January to May 1940 with the RAMC's 20th General Hospital in Camiers, Pas de Calais, a tented hospital near Boulogne.

Dates

Creation: 1940-01 - 2019-12

Biographical / Historical

Lt Colonel Leslie Barrett Cole (1898-1983) came up to King's at the time of the First World War. In the Second World War he was a physician in the RAMC's 20th General Hospital. From 1929 until he retired in the 1970s he was a consultant physician at Addenbrooke's, and he was appointed a supernumerary fellow of King's in the 1950's.