Shot by officer for talking

[IPT]

There was an Owen Sidney Martin who was a Medical Officer in the RAF in late 1918, until he relinquished his commission due to ill health in March 1918.

[charlie962]

19 hours ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said:

must have been quite  late on in his medical studies by then

As noted above Census 1911 has him as a medical student. Would it be 5 or 7 years to qualify ? (I may be thinking Vets ??

[FROGSMILE]

9 minutes ago, charlie962 said:

As noted above Census 1911 has him as a medical student. Would it be 5 or 7 years to qualify ? (I may be thinking Vets ??

Yes he appears not to have completed his matriculation by 1914, and so seems to have subsequently gone back into school and qualified (probably via a truncated wartime syllabus) after he resigned his commission in 1916.  I imagine that might well have been a part of the discussion by the military authorities when they were considering what to do with him.

Edited 28 April , 2021 by FROGSMILE

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

5 minutes ago, charlie962 said:

As noted above Census 1911 has him as a medical student. Would it be 5 or 7 years to qualify ? (I may be thinking Vets ??

I seem to think it was about 6 in those days, generally 5 nowadays.

Not exactly sure.

[charlie962]

Artists Rifles (see earlier post) Roll of Honour has:

 

Roll of Commissions

Somerset Light Infantry Regulars 1st & 2nd Bns

166 Martin, Owen Sidney, 2nd Lt 14/2/15, wounded 24/6/15

 

(my bold lettering!!)

[FROGSMILE]

Just now, charlie962 said:

Artists Rifles (see earlier post) Roll of Honour has:

 

Roll of Commissions

Somerset Light Infantry Regulars 1st & 2nd Bns

166 Martin, Owen Sidney, 2nd Lt 14/2/15, wounded 24/6/15

 

(my bold lettering!!)

Metaphorically in the head perhaps!  It really brings home the truism made by Dai about what the treatment of a soldier in similar circumstances might have been.

[charlie962]

2 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said:

Metaphorically in the head perhaps!

-and the date given was 4 days after he'd been released from prison and declared unfit for service.

 

3 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said:

 It really brings home the truism made by Dai about what the treatment of a soldier in similar circumstances might have been.

Indeed.