Catalogue description Folio(s): 506-507. Name: William Pears . Rank: Private . Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 2...

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Details of MH 106/2091/347
Reference: MH 106/2091/347
Description:

Folio(s): 506-507.

Name: William Pears.

Rank: Private.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 2 The South Wales Borderers, B Company.

Service number: 10098.

Age: 26.

Hospital(s): Endell Street Military Hospital, London.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Malaria.

Details and Outcome: Includes sheet containing medicines prescribed. Patient contracted malaria in around 1909 in China; wounded by shell, left side of head, in Dardanelles, 19/06/1915, wound healed. Reported sick 25/06/1915, invalided home, 10/07/1915, treated in 19 General Hospital, Egypt; Deaconess Hospital, Egypt; Glen Oppki, Egypt; most recent attack of malaria one week previously. Progress of disease charted; symptoms also include fine muscular tremors of hands and feet, present for two years previously; rash on chest by 14/10/1915. Ordered to report to Commanding Officer's office, 18/11/1915. Details of discharge not stated.

Number of Pages: 2.

Date: 1915 Aug 23 - 1915 Nov 18
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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