Étaples
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Nov 5, 2026
Corrie PerkinHOST
There's the whole German invasion of France and the Brits trying to push them back and our Australian soldiers becoming involved through campaigns like Gallipoli and the Somme.
Corrie PerkinHOST
And this story of Pip's is set in the coastal town of Étaples in northern France, which served as a large military base in France, a British military base.
Corrie PerkinHOST
And for reinforcements and training and so on, but also it was a centre for medical activity.
Corrie PerkinHOST
And there were many hospitals in this area.
Bryan MorrisonHOST
And he mentions ETAPS is on the coast of France.
Bryan MorrisonHOST
His school was the ETAPS school, spelled E-T-A-P-L-E-S, and probably pronounced ETAP in France.
Bryan MorrisonHOST
That was a fishing port and military town in northern France.
Bryan MorrisonHOST
And during World War I, it was the site of a massive British base and military hospital where many Canadian troops were stationed or treated.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
As I am out for confessions, I will here state that I did not think this could be an ordinary passenger train, and I wondered vaguely who these men and women were who got in and out of other carriages.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
At Étaples, there was a still longer wait and a still longer queue, but fortunately, my signature had not lengthened.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
I remember sitting tired and dazed on the top of a valise and asking Barrett what the time was.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
"Three forty-five." "What a time to arrive," I replied.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
I was soon to find myself accumulating a very similar collection in billets six miles behind the firing line, and taking most of it into the trenches.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
I remember being impressed by the statement that the cannonade had been heard day after day since the 25th, and still more impressed by references to the plans of the staff.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
I left Étaples early on the morning of the 7th, after receiving instructions and a railway warrant for Choques, from a one-armed major of the Gordons.
Lee SmalleyNARRATOR
Of our original twelve, only Terry and Crowley remained with me.
Kevin JohnsonNARRATOR
The attacks began in the south and west, but they soon spread to East Anglia and Lindsay.
Kevin JohnsonNARRATOR
In 842 the same army ravaged London, Etaples and Rochester.
Kevin JohnsonNARRATOR
In 851 Athelstan of Kent defeated the Danes at sea in one of the rare battles fought with them on their own element, and in the same year they remained for the winter in Thanet, probably owing to the loss of their ships.
Kevin JohnsonNARRATOR
The size and importance of these attacks may be gauged from the fact that in this year a fleet of some 350 Danish ships sailed up the Thames.