For over thirty-five years, Dr. Edgar Hyde served as physician for both Norwich University and Northfield, Vermont. While his reminiscences in the NU Archives look back on both his education at Dartmouth and Cornell and his medical practice after World War II, he left the university with a different kind of record of his military service in the Army Medical Corps.
300 photographs taken by Dr. Hyde between December 1942 and September 1945 document his time as head of the 91st Evacuation
Hospital, a 400-bed semi-mobile evacuation hospital in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). Originally designated as the 6th Surgical Hospital, the unit was re-designated as an evacuation hospital in 1942. From the time of their arrival in French Morocco on Christmas Eve in 1942 through 1945, Hyde’s collection of photographs tells part of his life story not figured in his short reminiscences.
These snapshots of officers’ tents and an officers’ club in Port Lyautey respresent a few scenes from Hyde’s more extensive photographic record.
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