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Pte. Leonard William Jacques
Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Olney, Northants
Leonard Jacques enlisted in April 1915, into the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served in the Brighton Hospitals, the Kitchener Hospital (today Brighton General Hospital) and the Royal Pavilion, which was converted into a 2,000 bed Indian Military Hospital.
He went to France in April 1917 and was at Passchendaele and later was gassed, returning, blind, to England. After recovering he spent April to August 1918 based in Blackpool. He then went to Archangel, Northern Russia, remaining there until September 1919.