Title: Dozinghem Cemetery in Flanders, Belgium, Row 4F Where Revere Osler is Buried
Location: Flanders (Belgium)
Date: Oxford Period (1905-1919)
Physical Description: image.photograph.colour
8.9 x 12.6 cm including borders
8.0 x 11.8 cm excluding borders
Image Number: CUS_091-005B_P
Description: Row 4F of Dozinghem Cemetery, near Flanders, Belgium, where Revere Osler is buried. Revere, the only son of William and Grace Revere Osler, was fighting for the Royal Field Artillery when he was wounded in a German attack near Ypres, Belgium. He died of his wounds on August 30, 1917 and was buried in Flanders immediately afterwards. Harvey Cushing, a friend of the Oslers and Sir William Osler's first biographer, had been serving nearby in a medical unit and was present during Revere's final hours and at his funeral.
Subject Flanders (Belgium)
Subject Cemeteries
Subject Sepulchral monuments
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: Cushing Collection

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