Other Information:Ivor entered the war in France on 15th August 1914 with No 3 General Hospital. He was serving with the 17th Field Ambulance in an Advanced Dressing Station in Poperinghe on 30th December 1915, when around 11.00 a.m a hostile aeroplane began dropping 3 bombs. Around 2.00 p.m. 2 hostile guns started to fire to the rear of the station, then around 4.00 p.m. a shell burst on the convent roof. The nose cap penetrated all the floors, hitting Ivor and fracturing his left thigh as he lay on one of the ward beds. He was evacuated to No 17 Casualty Clearing Station, where he died from his wounds at 2.40 p.m. 2 days later. He was buried the following day.
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