[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Retlaw it does look like it was an inflammatory connective tissue disorder.......and this would cover any kind of soft tissue injury.

My reading of this medical record is that the soldier needed ICT treatment for at least two weeks,(obviously an optimistic prognosis) then there is an entry that noted the injury to be healed, following that,it reads 'dispersed'...where I guess we would put discharged(although maybe because it related to the military they used dispersed as an alternative term for sending the man back to either his unit of his family).

Hi Margaret.
When a man was sent home from France or the M.E.F., for medical reasons he was always shown on documents as posted to the Depot Bttn, even if he never went there. If treatment was prolonged he would on rcovery be sent to the retraining Bttn, then sometimes renumbered and sent to a new Battn or even a new Regiment, very few returned to their old Bttn. In the above mans case he was sent to one of the dispersal units, they were at Heaton Park, Prees Heath and Oswestry.
Got another one for you P.U.O.

Retlaw.