Other Information:Oscar worked together with Ben Noot RAMC as stretcher-bearers at Gallipoli, working on Hill 971 and at Sulva Bay amongst other locations. Oscar left the 39th Field Ambulance before Ben due to sickness. It appears that he was sent to the 21st General Hospital in Malta during September 1915, then during November 1915 he was sent to the 2nd Southern Hospital in Bristol, sailing on the Hospital Ship "Ghoorka". Oscar was pensioned off in the spring of 1916 due to his illness, but mainly an infection in his left leg which had swollen to twice it's size. Ben Noot's father got Oscar a job with his colliery company in 1916 but by 1918, Oscar was doing munition work at Woolwich Arsenal. [Information researched and kindly provided by Paul Sambrook] At one point, Oscar was residing at Ivy Cottage, Cadoxton, Neath, Glamorganshire, South Wales. He died in civil life in 1928.
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