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Northumberland / Re: St.Andrews Cemetery, Jesmond-Grave of Peter Ferguson R.N. d. 24 July 1921
« on: Sunday 18 July 21 09:53 BST (UK) »
To stevej60, many thanks for your post. My own feelings about Peter Ferguson's name being on the Chatham Memorial are as follows; I have a copy of his death certificate which was issued after a coroner's inquest. He died as the result of exhaustion and gangrene in a leg wound after an operation in Chatham Naval Hospital to remove some glands which in my opinion may have gone wrong considering surgery and surgical procedures a century ago .It may have been that he suffered an injury whilst on duty immediately prior to the operation or sometime earlier which necessitated this. Although he wasn't killed on active service he died while serving the Crown/ Royal Navy.Hence his name is on the Memorial.
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