Gordon Murray Beaton is ferried across the English Channel to Ramsgate – just north of Dover. He arrives at the Granville Canadian Special Hospital in mid March 1916. Like the hospital in LeHavre France this special Canadian hospital in England is in a repurposed seaside hotel right on the English Channel. One of the specialties of the hospitals is in treating shell shocked soldiers like Sergeant Beaton. That’s good – Sergeant Beaton’s stay should be a short one then. Well, not exactly. Sergeant Beaton is there for 11 months before the doctors finally give up. They decide there is nothing more they can do for Gordon Murray Beaton. It is decided in February 1917 that he will be sent to a different hospital – this one in London, Ontario. His time in the Great War appears to be over.
