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Folio(s): 271-276. Name: W Swinnerton. Rank: Bombardier. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2144/65

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This record is about the Folio(s): 271-276. Name: W Swinnerton. Rank: Bombardier. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:... dating from 1916 May 16 - 1918 Feb 2 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 106/2144/65
Date
1916 May 16 - 1918 Feb 2
Description

Folio(s): 271-276.

Name: W Swinnerton.

Rank: Bombardier.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: D Battery, 96 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

Service number: 48292.

Age: 29.

Hospital(s): No.63 West Lancashire Field Ambulance; No.13 Field Ambulance; No.3 Australian Field Ambulance; No.10 Casualty Clearing Station; No.2 Australian General Hospital; 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Edinburgh; Leith War Hospital.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Inflammation of the tissue of hands and scabies; Neuralgia; Mustard gas wound.

Details and Outcome: Selection of record cards showing three periods of treatment in France and Scotland. Chain of evacuation and further details of treatment given. Discharged on furlough, then to duty. Record cards list additional artillery units served with.

Number of Pages: 6.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17200868/

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MH 106

War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen and Servicewomen

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Other ranks: Regimental Numbers 48240-48399. (Described at item level)

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Folio(s): 271-276. Name: W Swinnerton. Rank: Bombardier. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

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