Le Touquet

A seaside resort town on the Channel coast of the Pas-de-Calais, about 3 km west of Étaples across the Canche estuary. Robertson is a patient here from March 1, 1917, in the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital (No. 1 British Red Cross Hospital), after being wounded on February 26: he reaches Étaples by hospital train at about 2.30 A.M., then takes a long ambulance ride to a place "with high ceilings, pretty lights, mirrors & paintings." On March 21 he is passed to the base details camp at Étaples and sent down the line to Le Havre.