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Folio(s): 50-55. Name: Edwin Rangoon. Rank: Shoeing Smith. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2091/33

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This record is about the Folio(s): 50-55. Name: Edwin Rangoon. Rank: Shoeing Smith. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:... dating from 1915 July 7 - 1915 Sept 8 in the series War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen and Servicewomen. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MH 106/2091/33
Date
1915 July 7 - 1915 Sept 8
Description

Folio(s): 50-55.

Name: Edwin Rangoon.

Rank: Shoeing Smith.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 8 Hussars.

Service number: 4252.

Age: 25.

Hospital(s): Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Malaria.

Details and Outcome: Includes three clinical charts and radiography request/report sheet. Patient contracted malaria in India a few years previously and has had attacks since then in France. Suffered ague attack around 05/07/1915 and another, 08/07/1915; clinical charts show temperature spiking at a maximum of 105 degrees, 08/07/1915. No rigors for one week by 21/07/1915. Also limited movement in right elbow; X-ray report, 22/07/1915, shows injury. Details of discharge not stated, but clinical charts show that patient in hospital until at least 08/09/1915.

Number of Pages: 6.

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