Wimereux
Wimereux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France north of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the banks of the small river Wimereux. The river Slack forms the northern border of the commune and the English Channel the western.
History
In March 1899 the first radio link between France and England was established at Wimereux by Guglielmo Marconi.Lady Hadfield set up and ran a Red Cross hospital there. The Women's Hospital Corps, founded by Flora Murray and Louisa Garratt Anderson, opened its second hospital in Wimereux. It was the first women's hospital to be recognised by the British Army. In 1916, Solomon J Solomon set up a Royal Engineers establishment, the Special Works Park, in a disused feldspar factory and developed new military camouflage techniques and equipment for the British Army.
People
- William Morrison Wyllie, English artist
- Lionel Percy Smythe, English landscape artist, lived there from 1879 to 1918
- Alfred Mathieu Giard, director of the marine research establishment at Wimereux
- John McCrae, author of "In Flanders Fields", is buried in the CWGC cemetery
- Jack Lang, politician
- Maurice Boitel, artist, exhibited there in the 1980s and 1990s
Twin towns
Wimereux is twinned with the following towns:- Herne Bay, Kent, England
- Schmallenberg, Germany