Coldstreamer Posted 5 March , 2006 Share Posted 5 March , 2006 Hello Any one have any ideas the average number of wounds recd per man that ended up in hospital ? I ask because I havent come across a single Coldstream Gds man who was hospitalized more than twice (the second time being killed) - Officers yes but not OR. Except the chap who had several trips to the MO with STD... From the service papers I have seen (and I appreciate its only a few dozen) seems they got wounded once or became a fatality - quite a lot have no records of any wounds at all Cheers Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 5 March , 2006 Share Posted 5 March , 2006 I know that my Grandfather was in hospital three times with wounds. A bayonet wound to his arm, a cut across his stomach from shrapnel and in 1918 he jumped in a shell hole which had barbed wire in it. He ripped himself out to escape the oncoming Germans. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 6 March , 2006 Share Posted 6 March , 2006 This is, dare I say, a statistic incredibly difficult to come by, and useless when obtained! Occasions wounded [not wounds] qualified for wound badges and are often on a soldier's documents. Hospitalisation much more difficult unless service papers are available. Best source could well be officers' files, because woundings and hospitalisation records tend to be retained even after the weeding process, as relevant to pension etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Anderson Posted 6 March , 2006 Share Posted 6 March , 2006 Hello Any one have any ideas the average number of wounds recd per man that ended up in hospital ? I ask because I havent come across a single Coldstream Gds man who was hospitalized more than twice (the second time being killed) - Officers yes but not OR. Except the chap who had several trips to the MO with STD... From the service papers I have seen (and I appreciate its only a few dozen) seems they got wounded once or became a fatality - quite a lot have no records of any wounds at all Cheers Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Anderson Posted 6 March , 2006 Share Posted 6 March , 2006 Hi Coldstreamer, don't know if this helps, Family story has it that my grandfather was in wounded/in hospital three times, shrapnel wound, wounded on barbed wire and gassed. As I have not got his service record I can not confirm this but he has four different service numbers on his mic, also his honourable discharge scroll says he was discharged disabled. He started and finished as a private. Donny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 7 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 7 March , 2006 hello thanks for your thoughts Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 7 March , 2006 Share Posted 7 March , 2006 hello thanks for your thoughts Ian Hi Ian. One GF wounded once, head, DOW. Other GF wounded once, came home minus an arm. What kind of average do you require? Mean, median or mode? How do you intend to apply it? Presumably some form of measure of dispersion. I'm not sure what it would tell us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 7 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 7 March , 2006 Hello just trying to find the chances of getting wounded more than once. Like I said, seems from the records I have looked at being wounded and going back to the front after recovering didnt happen all that often after the first occasion And if any one has data to give the mean, mode and median for wounds then they should be on a maths forum...I had to think what they all meant...A level maths was years ago Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 7 March , 2006 Share Posted 7 March , 2006 Ian I'm not sure if you are looking for examples but there is this unfortunate chap here - or fortunate whichever way you look at it because he did survive. His great nephew contacted me and said his family or he had memories of him post war Daily Sketch August 1918 Fifteen operations, seriously wounded six times Lance Corporal Ernest GRIMES East Surreys Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred W Posted 8 March , 2006 Share Posted 8 March , 2006 My uncle 11719 Private James Charles Worrell MM, Coldstream Guards, was wounded four times, 14 Feb 1915 head, 14 June 1915 head, 15 Sept 1916 leg and 25 Sept 1918 back.He survived the war, emmigrated to the USA in 1923 and died in Hollywood Jan 1953. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislock Posted 8 March , 2006 Share Posted 8 March , 2006 My Grandfather was shot through the neck, and had part of his ear bitten off! He was a right grumpy ******! Heaven knows what happened to Fritz! Doesn't bear thinking about! Have been thinking, if he hadn't of been shot, would he still of got a SWB for his ear being bitten off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 9 March , 2006 Share Posted 9 March , 2006 One of my mother's cousins was "wounded" once and the wounds were multiple; GSW both knees, right thigh, left arm, right ear. He had his right leg amputated, was in various hospitals from November 1917 until mid 1919, admitted to hospital again twice in 1919, the last time nearly dieing from 'flu. He was eventually discharged as being medically unfit for further service in 1921. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 9 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 March , 2006 Hello it just must be the ones that I have researched .... Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 9 March , 2006 Share Posted 9 March , 2006 My Grandfather was shot through the neck, and had part of his ear bitten off! He was a right grumpy ******! Heaven knows what happened to Fritz! Doesn't bear thinking about! Have been thinking, if he hadn't of been shot, would he still of got a SWB for his ear being bitten off! If you bite my ear off, I might get just a little tetchy myself. Perhaps he was wearing a valuable earring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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