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S/Sgt. Henry Frederick Graebe

British Army 2nd Eastern General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps

from:Rudgwick

Henry Graebe was the son of a German immigrant. He married a British wife and became a teacher. Henry was appointed assistant teacher in Rudgwick Council School, Sussex, some time before 1911.

He resigned to join the army in 1913. He served in the UK, some of the time at the 2nd Eastern General, and was sent overseas in 1916. Here he was injured, and was treated by plastic surgeon named Harold Gillies. He was discharged from the army in 1919. Henry subsequently married, had several children, and became headmaster of Itchingfield School near Horsham Sussex.



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