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Folio(s): 467-471. Name: Edwin West. Rank: Second Lieutenant. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2139/141

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This record is about the Folio(s): 467-471. Name: Edwin West. Rank: Second Lieutenant. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:... dating from 1917 Mar 9 - 1917 Dec 27 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 106/2139/141
Date
1917 Mar 9 - 1917 Dec 27
Description

Folio(s): 467-471.

Name: Edwin West.

Rank: Second Lieutenant.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 7 The Leicestershire Regiment; 7 The Leicestershire Regiment attached 47 Sikhs.

Service number: [unspecified].

Age: 25.

Hospital(s): No 33 Casualty Clearing Station; No 14 Ambulance Train; No 20 General Hospital; 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford; HT Caronia; War Hospital, Colaba, India; Officers' Hospital, Nasik.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Inflammation of Connective Tissue (ICT), left foot; Jaundice.

Details and Outcome: Selection of record cards showing two periods of treatment in France and England. Chain of evacuation given. Diagnosis of foot problem further elucidated in Oxford as septic toe and furunculosis, details given, including previous episode of shell shock. Operation performed to remove ingrowing toenail. Discharged to duty.

Number of Pages: 5.

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The National Archives, Kew
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