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Title: Help with word on service record WW1 (completed)
Post by: hume on Saturday 11 August 18 16:00 BST (UK)

Hi,

Can someone make out the last word in this? I'm struggling.

Board credit his statements as to ???

Thanks

Title: Re: Help with word on service record WW1
Post by: Milliepede on Saturday 11 August 18 16:08 BST (UK)

That is tricky  :-\  is it a medical term, I wondered at first if it was "losing" or "having" but doesn't seem to be a "g" there.

Could you type the sentence to get it in context?  If he was injured specifically someone might know the consequence of that injury.

Oh could the last bit be that word for losing consciousness - can't think what it is though.

Title: Re: Help with word on service record WW1
Post by: diplodicus on Saturday 11 August 18 16:13 BST (UK)

Hemoptysis is the coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs. This can occur with lung cancer, infections such as tuberculosis, bronchitis, or pneumonia, and certain cardiovascular conditions.

Title: Re: Help with word on service record WW1
Post by: hume on Saturday 11 August 18 16:37 BST (UK)

Thanks, that makes sense. He was said to have suffered from a slight cough and severe bleeding. He put it down to being gassed in 1918 but wasn't hospitalised and apparently there was no evidence to back that up either.