Sunday, 27 March 2016

Sickness

Lieutenant W White [X550/1/81]

Monday 27th March 1916: Sickness is running through the 2nd Battalion at the moment. We heard yesterday how 25 men had gone sick last week. Today an officer, Lieutenant W White(1) has also had to report sick. At the end of a long, hard, snowy winter the men’s health is not likely to be at its best. Let us hope for a warm, dry Spring for them

Source: X550/3/wd

(1) He would be killed at Gird Trench on the Somme on 12th October 1916

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