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Blake Bradshaw

Blake Bradshaw
Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
420483
Unit at enlistment: 
43rd Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Wounded: 
Yes
Prisoner of war: 
Yes
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
714 Fisher Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Next of kin address: 
714 Fisher Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Trade or calling: 
Barber
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
27
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Medical History, Manitoba Military Hospital, 1920

Wounded October 18th, 1916, G.S.W. right thigh and left leg.  No treatment four days except Field dressing.  Captured and wounds dressed at dressing station and splints applied.  Cambrai – Wounds dress.  Valenciennes, leg set, dressed and extension January, 1917.  Hamelin-on-Yser. March, 1917, wounds still discharging 2” shorter.  In prison camp on crutches.  No duty.  December 1917 to Switzerland wounds both legs still discharging.  FB removed both legs.  Left leg then healed.  England June, 1918.  King George Military Hospital and #16 Canadian General Hospital, Orpington.  Right leg still discharging.  Invalided to Canada Sept. 1918.  M.M.H. Operation November 21st.  Sinus explored and sequestra removed. Leg broken and wired with extension. Profuse discharge for a while.  Some movement at site of fracture.  February 13th, 1919. Wire removed, August 12th 1919 sequestra removed.  Bismuth injection.  Wounds surface still discharging.

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