Antoine Depage
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Antoine Depage (Bosvoorde, 1862-Den Haag, 10 August 1925), was a Belgian surgeon; founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross. He maried Marie Picard in 1893, but his wife dies when on 7 May 1915 the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine.
He studied medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and graduated magna cum laude in 1887. He became one of the founders and the first secretary of the International Surgical Society (1902-1912). In 1907 he founds the first nursing school and Edith Cavell becomes the first director of the school.
During World War I he established the military hospital l'Océan at De Panne. He became the first head of the surgical department of the Brugmann hospital (1923). Antoine Depage was a freemason and a member of the Grand Orient of Belgium.
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