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Service record hand writing regarding amputation


Myrtle

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I have just found another relative (grandmother's cousin) who served and was wounded 8th September 1916 in France. He had his left leg amputated at the thigh while still overseas. I am having difficulty with reading the words underlined in red, therefore would appreciate some help.

Myrtle

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Could the first name be Heily?

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Heilly is a place in France on the Ancre river in the Somme region; near Albert.

Sounds/looks good to me.

Roxy

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Just my twopence, but I suspect that they may all be hospital related. ie he had his leg amputated at one hospital; was returned from another hospital for the work on his abscess and fitting of prosthetic leg. After medical boarding he was sent to another hospital - presumably for rehabilitation and/or discharge.

There is a place callend 'Pennant' in LLangefni on Anglesey - but I think that I am clutching at straws!

I looked through LLT for CCS or hospitals in France or Uk to no avail.

Roxy

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Kate & Roxy

Thank you both. Heilly it must be! The other words do look like places where he was treated don't they, so I will check further along that line. Although he wasn't Welsh he did join up while working in South Wales so I will check for hospitals in that area.

Myrtle

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Myrtle

See the CWGC entry for Heilly Station cemetery for more details of the CCS at Heilly in September 1916.

Regards

Mike S

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Heilly Station had two CCS there in preparation for the attack on July 1st.

The number of ambulance trains that reached there was otally inadequate, and those for whom they arrived too late are buried in the cemetery over the main road. Some are in triple burials, and, with no space for the regimental badges on the headstones, they are on stones set into a loggia at the entrance.

Just up the hill from the cemetery is the field upon which Richthofen landed for the last time.

Standing at the cemetery, it is easy to visualise the two CCS drawn up and established just besides the rural halt on the railway. It is a fascinating place to visit.

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I am posting some more information on my grandmother's cousin which I have now found in his pension record. This information indicates that he possibly had both his legs aptutated one at Heilly and one at Rouen. I would appreciate other people's opinion on this as I started to wonder if there had been a mistake made with the writing of right and left when describing amputation of leg.

Myrtle

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Bruce

My relative appears to have been wounded in September 1916 but I have yet to check his whereabouts earlier that year. He appears to have been with the 1st South Wales Borderers from 12th March 1916.

Myrtle

P.S. I have just found some information provided by Steven Broomfield regarding 8th September 1916 in Units & Formations under South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion. This explains that the 1st SWBs attacked at High Wood on 8th/9th September.

It also appears that my relative was with the 4th SWBs at Gallipoli which explains the "enteric " listed in his medical report in my earlier post.

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