Wimereux

In March 1899 the first radio link between France and England was established at Wimereux by Guglielmo Marconi.^[4]

Lady Hadfield set up and ran a Red Cross hospital there.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

• William Morrison Wyllie, English artist
• Lionel Percy Smythe (Wyllie's stepson), 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^[8]
• Jack Lang, politician
• Maurice Boitel, artist, exhibited there in the 1980s and 1990s

Wimereux is twinned with the following towns:

• Herne Bay, Kent, England
• Schmallenberg, Germany

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  The beach at Wimereux
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  Beach huts
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  The west front of the church
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  The war memorial
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  The seafront promenade
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  Villa «La Frégate»
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  Villas on the seafront
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  Villa «De Sonis»
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  Plaque commemorating wireless link-up between France and England
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  High tide along the beachfront
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  The beach crowded with people at lower tide

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department