War Diaries Talk

Died in hospital

  • erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be by erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be

    Bdr Oates was wounded on July 9th 1917 and died later in hospital (says the diary). But he was buried in the UK (Salendine Nook Baptist Chapelyard) . So I suppose he died in a hospital in the UK.

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  • cyngast by cyngast moderator

    Yes, that is probably what happened. Possibly he seemed stable and was sent to the UK for further surgery where he might then have died of an infection. That's just a conjecture as the diary doesn't state what his injury was.

    With all of our readily available antibiotics today, we tend to forget that infection was a dangerous killer back then.

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