245488 Pte. Abraham Law Lees British Army 12th Btn. Cheshire Regiment from:Seacombe My grandfather, Abraham Law Lees enlisted at the beginning of the war in September 1914 with the Cheshire Regiment. He was in the 12th Battalion and after initially going to France, was posted to Salonika in 1915. He was hospitalised in Salonika a couple of times in 1916 and returned to the UK on the HMHS Rewa in the September. He was admitted initially to the Sherlock Street Auxilliary Hospital in Liverpool before being admitted to the Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool. He was given a medical discharge in 1917. He was given the 1914-15 Star and the Victory Medal. I believe that he had contracted dysentery. He once told me about an incident in 1917 which still angered him. He was on a bus in Liverpool and a woman gave him a white feather. He had a badge which indicated that he had been medically discharged which he showed the woman, who then promptly burst into tears. Oddly enough he always told me he was in the Dardenelles during the war and it was only when I saw his medical records a few months ago that I discovered he was in Salonika.
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