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No.2 General Hospital

No. 2 General Hospital was located at Quai De Escales, Le Havre in France.

23rd Dec 1914 On the Move

25th Dec 1914 Christmas Gifts

8th Jan 1915 Report Requested

20th Jan 1915 Reinforcements

6th Feb 1916 Visit

16th Feb 1916 Correspondence

19th Feb 1916 Nurses Required

25th Feb 1916 Rest Clubs

28th Feb 1916 Correspondence

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Those known to have worked or been treated at
No.2 General Hospital
during the Great War 1914-1918.

Atkins Percy Thomas Chater. Spr.
Buck Louis Arthur. Cpl.
Dutton George Francis. L/Cpl.
Haley Joseph Bertram. Sgt.
Jacques Albert. Gnr.
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Gnr. Albert Jacques 68th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
Albert Jacques joined up with the York and Lancaster Regiment and later served with the 68th Coy Machine Gun Corps. He was hospitalised for 3 months in 1916 at No 2 General Hospital at Le Havre and was entitled to wear a Wound Stripe from 6th of July 1916.
Michael Bacon

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Cpl. Louis Arthur Buck 7th Battalion Cameron Highlanders
Louis Buck served in the 51st Highland Division with the Cameron Highlanders. He attested 11th of December 1915 into 2/4th Battalion, giving his address 38 Grove Road, Norwich. Next of kin is his Father Jesse Buck, Glencroft, 22 Hamilton Road, Colchester, Essex. Louis was Mobilized 2nd of June 1916 and was promoted Corporal on 15th of December 1916. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 29th of June 1916 to 17th of October 1917.
2nd General Hospital medical records give L A Buck, age 28, 203399, Corporal, Cameron Highlanders admitted 3rd of October 1917 with PUO (pyrexia (fever) of unknown origin - Trench Fever). He was discharged on 17th of October 1917 invalided out, he underwent rehab at Bray Court and was discharged (Medical) 12th of June 1918. Awarded Silver War Badge (honourable discharge because of illness or injury) on 24th of June 1918. He was awarded the Victory Medal and British Medal.
Army Medical Report:
Unit: Cameron Highlanders
Regimental No.: 203399
Rank: Corporal
Name: Buck, Louis Arthur
Age last birthday: 28
Enlisted: June 1916 at Norwich
Former Trade: Commercial Traveller
Disability in respect of which invaliding is proposed: Shell Shock
Date of original disability: August 1917
Place of origin of disability: France

Louis had a normal childhood except suffering Brain fever at 11 yrs. No -- fever, chorea or tonisllitis. He attended school until 17 years and is recorded as having a normal tolerance to games. He became rose grower then commercial traveller until enlistment in June 1916.
His health is recorded as good during training. In France, he was blown up, then contracted tench fever with tremors body and limbs. In Nov 1917 he was sent to Buxton for treatment by baths etc. and twice collapsed in the bath. He had a septic hand and arm through cut in shaving. He was transferred to Sheffield then to Colchester.
Causation of disability: is recorded as Constitutional caused by active service.
Present condition: (parts undecipherable) marked general weakness and ---- Extreme general tremor, making eating, walking and almost any co-ordinate action difficult. Tenderness of both tibiae. No evidence of organic disease. Heart - no abnormalities. Lungs - clean. Abd - neg. Nervous system in a state of hyperexcitability but shows no evidence of any structural change.
Chris Trigg

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Spr. Percy Thomas Chater Atkins 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers
In 1914, Percy Atkins was 16 and the youngest brother of two Regular Army soldiers and a Territorial. He enlisted in the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers and was in the trenches aged just 17. At some point in the war he transferred to 123rd Field Company, Royal Engineers, with whom he finished his service.
He was hospitalised at least twice in the war, and in fact, was in the 2nd General Hospital with pleurisy when the guns fell silent on 11th of November 1918. By then, his eldest brother had been a POW for four years in Germany and his other two brothers had been killed in action (on the same day, though a thousand miles apart). In later life he lived in Barnet.

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L/Cpl. George Francis Dutton 190th Quarrying Company Royal Engineers
My Grandfather George Dutton, was born in 1895 in Eckington, Derbyshire, near Sheffield. He was one of 7 brothers. The family were mostly miners, and the family background was definitely working class. George, in 1911 was a gobber in a pit.
In 1916, he married and gave his occupation as Lance Corporal, Royal Fusiliers, Marriage by Licence at Nottingham Registry Office. His wife was also working class, in the lace industry. He was in the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, but in Spring 1916 was attached to the RE 190th Field Company (quarrying). This was found on a casualty record. He was wounded on 9th January 1916. A Gunshot wound, he had 3 days treatment at No. 2 General Hospital at Quai De Escales, Le Havre, he was serving attached to 190th Field Company, Royal Engineers. A note in the margin records, Hospital ship St Patrick, so presumably he went back to England.
Paul Dutton

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Sgt. Joseph Bertram Haley Royal Army Medical Corps
Joseph Haley was my paternal grandfather born in 1885 in Tavistick Devon and died approx 1935 in Truro, Cornwall. He trained in either Lambeth, London or the Royal Victoria Hospital, Southampton pre war. Served WW1, in the 2nd General Hospital, Le Havre, and in Gallipoli.
I'm still researching, but it seems that he moved around with his unit in France, before being sent to Imbros, Greece in August 1915, where he was involved subsequently in the Gallipoli conflict. He may have moved back and forth between England and Greece in the hospital ships.
S. Haley

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