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12th Canadian General Hospital, Bramshott
12th Canadian General Hospital opened on the 12th of October 1917 at the renamed Bramshott Military Hospital at the Canadian Army's Bramshott Camp on the common between Bramshott and Liphook in Hampshire. The hospital closed on the 23rd of September 1919.If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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263889Pte. Courtney Leigh Tower A Coy. 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
My Grandfather, Courtney Tower, went into Bramshott Hospital on 13th of March 1919 and left there between in May 1919. I believe he was there due to the Spanish flu. He also served in the 44th Battalion, CEF.Clayton Dearden
262765L/Cpl. William Allen 19th Battalion
William Allen was born in Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 10th of December 1891. He emigrated with his family to Ontario Canada in 1911, from Horsforth W. Yorks.On 12th November 1914 he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He sailed to England on the SS Scandanavian on 13th of May 1915, arriving on the 22nd. He left Folkestone for France on 23rd of September 1915 and served with the 250th Tunnelling Company until 31st December that year.
He fought with the 19th Battalion through 1916 and was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in June 1917. William was transferred to the Military Hospital in Southhall and later Hastings and was discharged in December 1917. He was promoted to Lance Corporal but later was admitted to Bramshott Military Hospital and spent 4 months suffering from Influenza.
William was discharged from the Canadian Military in March 1919 and married Mary Jane Holdsworth from Bramley West Yorkshire. They raised 2 children Jack and Maisie Allen and he died peacefully in Scarborough East Yorkshire in 1987 at the age of 95.
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244601Pte. Charles Cornelius Quick 21st (Reserve) Btn. A Coy
Charles Cornelius Quick was born in La Salle, Illinois 8th of December 1893. His father Ernest Alexander Quick and mother Theressia Jeffery Quick were originally from Kingsville, Ontario. Charles' siblings were Ernest Jr., Effie, Betta, Thomas and Maurice.He was enlisted in Calgary, Alberta on the 22nd of February 1918 with the First Depot Battalion 13th MD Alberta Regiment. He embarked from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 9th of April 1918 on the HMS Metagama and arrived in Liverpool on 20th of April 1918 (upon there joined the Canadian 21st Reserve Btn., A Coy). In his records it indicates that he was hospitalized at the 12th Canadian Bramshott Hospital as he acquired the Mumps.
Charles was later transferred to the 10th Battalion on 3rd of October 1918, and arrived in France 4th of October 1918. He acquired influenza on on 2nd of December 1918. (His brother Maurice Quick in Monarch, Alberta died on 25th of November 1918 of influenza, his obituary stated that he had a brother Charley who was in France). He was with the 10th Battalion when he left for Canada on the Empress of Britain on 26th of April 1919.
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