Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 032   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)

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1915 October 11 - Oakfield Park, Dartford
Florence also met Frank Whitehead and asked him to visit. He's 21, seems older.

Frank Clayton Whitehead is in War records, correct battery and battalion and
home address:

War Record, Frank Whitehead


...he survived the war and the Spanish Flu. Made Lieutenant.
Awarded Military Cross. London Gazette 1919 Feb 1. Went to Vancouver.

...older from having "knocked about a bit". His father is an architect in Winnipeg and Sergeant Whitehead is really an engineer.
Mentioned jokes about army doctors and pills, grumbling about food, unit
rivalries


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 032   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)