Le Touquet Paris-Plage - Hotel Duboc, Hotel des Dunes etc., 1914-18. The card shows Hotel Duboc and its cafe restaurant. Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Etaples,in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 5,355 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer. During most of World War I Le Touquet was home of the Duchess of Westminster's (#1 British Red Cross Society) Hospital for wounded British troops. The #2 Canadian Stationary Hospital had the distinction of being the first Canadian Unit to land on French soil. No. 2 Stationary opened at the Hotel du Golf at Le Touquet on November 27, 1914. All the 142 British Commonwealth war graves in Le Touquet's Communal Cemetery in Avenue de 18 Juin are from the hospitals. The graves occupy a plot by the cemetery entrance.