Cache F - The Treves Trail

Later Life DCH 175 Treves Trail

Look around the surroundings to see Frederick Treves’s grave‌

Pneumonia Later in life Treves developed heart failure and went to live in the South of France.

In 1922 he survived an episode of severe pneumonia, which was very prevalent in the Winter of 2014/15. The oldest and youngest people are most at risk from pneumonia. The elderly are at risk because they may already be quite frail when they become ill, and children and teenagers because they have developed less immunity to germs in the community. Inuenza carries a risk of developing into pneumonia which is why a u jab is a good preventaMve measure. The u jab is also recommended for those with a respiratory disease.

The Passing of Treves The following year, Treves developed acute cholecysMMs peritoniMs and died on the 7th December 1923 at the Clinique de Rosemont in Lausanne aSer a few days’ illness. He was cremated and his ashes were brought back to Dorchester. The funeral service took place at St Peter’s Church, Dorchester on the 2nd January 1924.

His friend Thomas Hardy was present at the service, the King and Queen were represented by physician-in-ordinary Lord Dawson.

Thomas Hardy closed the service with a hymn and wrote a poem for the service which was published in The Times, called ‘In the Evening. In Memoriam Frederici Treves, 1853–1923’.

His ashes were laid to rest at the Dorchester Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and a daughter.

Treves’ Grave reads: ‘In loving memory of Sir Frederick Treves, BART, GCVO, CB. Serjeant Surgeon to the King.

Born at Dorchester, February 15th 1853 Died at Lausanne December 7th 1923.

His ashes rest here.

Marvellous deSness called you forth to do much that was due. Good you have returned now all is well. Thomas Hardy.’

A cross of flowers from Queen Alexandra bore the following inscripMon: ‘For my beloved Sir Frederick Treves, whom we all loved so dearly and now will miss so sadly, from his affecMonate Alexandra, Sandringham, Norfolk.’ (January 12, 1924).

Other members of the Treves family are also buried here.

‘In the Evening. In Memoriam Frederick Treves, 1853– 1923’ (Dorchester Cemetery, 2nd January 1924) by Thomas Hardy In the evening, when the world knew he was dead, He lay amid the dust and hoar Of ages; and to a spirit akending said: ‘This chalky bed? – I surely seem to have been here before?

‘O yes. You have been here. You knew the place, Substanced as you, long ere your call; And if you cared to do so you might trace In this gray space Your being, and the being of men all.’

Thereto said he: ‘Then why was I called away?

I knew no trouble or discontent: Why did I not prolong my ancient stay Herein for aye?’

The spirit shook its head. “None knows: you went.

‘And though, perhaps, Time did not sign to you The need to go, dream-vision sees How Aesculapius' phantom hither flew, With Galen's, too, And his of Cos – plague-proof Hippocrates,

‘And beckoned you forth, whose skill had read as theirs, Maybe, had Science chanced to spell In their day, modern modes to stem despairs That mankind bears! ...

Enough. You have returned. And all is well.’