Born in Boitsfort on and died in The Hague (Den Hage) on .
Birth certificate for DE PAGE Antoine
Doctor of Medicine, surgeon, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, organiser of the army's health services in 1914-1918, founder of the first Belgian nursing school, which he entrusted to Edith Cavell, founder of the Belgian Society of Surgery, creator of the international review The surgical yearsecretary of the International Society of Surgery, president of the Red Cross, member of the Académie royale de Belgique, liberal politician, senator for Brussels from 1920 to 1925.
During the war, Queen Elisabeth II asked him to set up a hospital behind the front line, using an ambulance called Océan. In 1914, the hospital had 200 beds and, at the height of the 1914-1918 war, nearly 2,000 beds.
Sources :
https://www.rtbf.be/14-18/article_la-panne-et-l-ambulance-de-l-ocean?id=8295427
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Depage
