Namur Detention Hospital, Belgium 1919 - the nature of its patients

[davidbohl]

This chap died on this 16th Oct 1919, almost a year after hostilities.

The Soldiers Effects from Anc.

There doesn't seem to be much online info on Namur.

Was the 9th Lab.Coy still over there or had Pte Morris been in hospital for a long time with Spanish Flu /Scarlet fever or the like ?

Many thanks

Dave

 

 

 

[Acknown]

I wonder if this refers to the POW hospital at Namur:

It may have been turned over to general military use after the war.

Acknown

Addition: His Pension Record states that he died of VDH (valvular disease of the heart).

Edited 16 October , 2022 by Acknown

[davidbohl]

1 hour ago, Acknown said:

died of VDH (valvular disease of the heart).

Thanks Acknown, I would have expected him to have been sent home before his death in Belgium

[Acknown]

'No Labour, No Battle' (John Starling and Ivor Lee 2009/2020) tells us that the last LC soldiers did not return home until 1921: clearing battlefields, repairing infrastructure, salvage, sorting and packing salvage, exhuming and reburying the dead, and supporting the British Army of the Rhine in Germany. By the end of 1919, there were still 41 LC companies in France, 24 in Germany and one in Italy. Regrettably, the specific job of 9 Company after the war is not mentioned.

Acknown

Addition: CWGC states that Belgrade Cemetery in Namur contains 249 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, most of them dating from the ten months when casualty clearing stations were then posted to Namur after the Armistice. Note the dates of death: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?CemeteryExact=true&Cemetery=BELGRADE CEMETERY&Size=100&Page=1. It seems that Hugh's circumstances were not unusual.

Edited 16 October , 2022 by Acknown

[healdav]

13 hours ago, Acknown said:

 

Addition: CWGC states that Belgrade Cemetery in Namur contains 249 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, most of them dating from the ten months when casualty clearing stations were then posted to Namur after the Armistice. Note the dates of death: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?CemeteryExact=true&Cemetery=BELGRADE CEMETERY&Size=100&Page=1. It seems that Hugh's circumstances were not unusual.

And there is a memorial there as well. We held a wreath laying there a long time ago now.