Catalogue description Folio(s): 729-730. Name: C. Hotchin . Rank: Private . Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 4...

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Details of MH 106/2123/244
Reference: MH 106/2123/244
Description:

Folio(s): 729-730.

Name: C. Hotchin.

Rank: Private.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 4 Lincolnshire Regiment.

Service number: 3531.

Age: 20.

Hospital(s): No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Gunshot wound of arm, thigh and buttock; Gas Gangrene.

Details and Outcome: Ailments listed: three shrapnel wounds of left upper arm, right thigh and left buttock, gas gangrene in buttock wound. Operation 09/08/1915, shrapnel removed from thigh and left bicep. Dark area appeared around buttock wound, wound excised immediately, details listed. Patient died 12/08/1915. Cause of death, gas gangrene. Clinical chart attached.

Number of Pages: 2.

Date: 1915 Aug 5 - 1915 Aug 12
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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