Please help with Gordon Highlander Frank's hospital record

[PrueM]

Hello all,

Please could you help me work out what's going on in my grandfather's cousin Frank Gordon's hospital record from his service dossier?  I was lucky enough to find it amongst the burnt WW1 personnel records.

I know Frank died on either 12th or 13th Feb 1917 from wounds - this record says 13th Feb - and from this record I have found out that he had a fractured skull.  He seems to have lingered for a month or so with that wound, but I'm also interested in the other entries and the chronology of the entries, and was hoping someone could decipher it all for me so I can get straight in my head what happened to him.

Incidentally, he was in the 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders, and their diary for the period when he was wounded shows only the following action, apart from the usual marching and resting:

"January
4th      'D' company stood down 5.30 pm; heavy shelling Fort Briggs, direct hit, 4 killed 2 wounded.
5th      Heavy shelling Fort Briggs; 16 men buried, dug out by KORL, 2 wounded; 10 pm relieved by 8th KORL."
(http://www.thegordonhighlanders.co.uk/Pages/Diary.htm#1917Jan)

Your expertise would be appreciated!  Thank you 

Prue

[mmm45]

Ill have a go!
4(?) 1 17 1st Batt Wounded In Action
6 1 17 142 Field Ambulance Admitted Concussion Buried
6 1 17 23 Field Ambulance Admitted Shell Wound(SW) Right leg Frac?? Head
6 1 17 3rd General(?) Hosp Admitted Fracture Base R Fibia
Abrasions both legs???
Cannot read next line?
13 2 17 Died Of Wounds.

3rd General Hospital could be 3rd Canadian??

Hope this helps im sure someone else will help decypher.

[neil1821]

The dates seem like 7.1.17 (both 7s look the same), then 16.1.17
Admittedly it then seems to go back to 6.1.17 

Other than that, I agree pretty much with Ady.
I'd say 3rd Can S Hosp for the hospital though.
The line beginning 12.2.17 seems to say  in 3rd Can Sty Hosp. Then the final column says Doullens I think (presumably the place where the hospital is)

[neil1821]

Just googled it - 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital 

http://www.webmatters.net/cwgc/doullens_com.htm

[mmm45]

Yes Delete 3rd General Hospital from my interpretation  and insert Canadian

Doullens good call for its location.

 

[PrueM]

Thanks all 
Doullens makes sense - it's where he is buried    Thank you for the link to that site, Neil.

I'd been able to make out most of the entries, but I didn't know SW was Shell Wound, and couldn't read what it said after that (apart from "Fract Head") - now that you've transcribed it, I can see it does say Rt Leg, which would fit with the next entry mentioning the Rt Tibia.

The second last line seems to read "Still in 3 Can Sty Hosp - Doullens".

What do you think the entry means on 16.1 - "Concussion buried"?  I can only think that he was buried under the debris from shelling or something, but surely he was still in hospital at this date?  Do you think it might just be a later entry referring to his original admission on the 6th?

Thanks for all your help so far 

PRue

[atom12]

Wow Prue

What a marvellous resource Mary Cox has provided with the 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders War Diary, "Thanks" for bringing it to our attention.  

[PrueM]

It's fabulous, isn't it 
Although Frank is the only one of my family to have been in the Gordons, it's still a fascinating glimpse into daily life.

[atom12]

We visited these cemeteries last year, not because I'd any family there, it just happened that  Doullens was the nearest town to where our holiday cottage was.  If I'd known I could have gotten a photo for you.