Military Hospitals. REPORT ON THE SERVICE RECORD OF CITIZEN CLAUDE FERRARY, first-class medical officer, employed at the Hospice de l'Humanité in St Brieuc, 27 Frimaire year 6 (17 December 1797).

Military Hospitals. STATE OF SERVICES OF CITIZEN CLAUDE FERRARY, first-class medical officer, employed at the Hospice de l'Humanité in St Brieuc, 27 frimaire year 6 (December 17, 1797).

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Claude FERRARY, first-class medical officer, Employed at the Hospice de l'Humanité in St Brieuc, was in "service of the Navy from 1772 until 1785, when he obtained his leave due to infirmity following a bullet received in the chest on the Corvette La Défiance where he was Chief Surgeon, a rank he had obtained in 1778.
He participated in 9 battles: at Ouessant on the ship La Couronne; on the Surveillante; on the Renommée, on the ship Le Solitaire in America, on La Défiance where he was wounded, disembarked from the Inconstante to transfer to Le Glorieux where there were 400 sick, received 200f for his care then... ".
He then served in the "Army from 1785 until today".
"Commissioned by Minister Duportaill in 1791 in the Army of the North and received the order after the Battle of Gemmapes to collect all the wounded & lead them to Mons, following the order given by Dumourier...""... Another order to go to Louvain & prepare a hospice there for 2 to 300 sick & take charge of the chief service."
"On March 8, year 2, a new order to evacuate the hospice from Louvain to Valenciennes. He was solely responsible for this without other surgeons or assistants. There were 400 wounded...". "Arrived in Condé on March 18, he was ordered to quickly set up a new hospital, barely formed when the Austrians troubled the place..."
"... Taken prisoner at Condé on July 9. Released on the 18th of the same month. Upon his arrival in Cambrai, he received an order from Citizen Gauthier, deputy to the Minister, to go to the army of the Vendée where after six months of running & facing the greatest dangers, he received from the army surgeon the order to go to Nantes to take charge of the hospice for the wounded... "
"... Finally, the English landed in Quiberon necessitated the movement of the troops, he received the order to follow the military columns to Vannes. After this expedition, he went to St Brieuc where he is now... ".
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"Certified as true in Port Brieuc on the 27th frimaire of the sixth year of the French Republic."
Signature "C. Ferrary".

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