Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 055   Volume 7: December 21, 1916 (Sutton Veny) - April 5, 1917 (26th General Hospital, B.E.F.)

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1917 April 5 - 26th General Hospital, B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) France - p.3
Dolly's brother has wounds in side, neck, and leg, smashed pelvis, internal
injuries, can take no nourishment: pneumonia and plurisy.
Later: He is dead now. Dolly came in to say he was worse: vomiting blood
and hiccoughing, which we both knew from even short experience was a sure
sign of death.
We both went on shift at five, but Dolly was gone when I came back. Her
mother had come in an ambulance, they went off for the night together.
Mrs. Markus (Dolly's mother) will probably have another nervous breakdown now.
[I was unable to find a service record for the surname "Markus" that fits
with a death in April, 1917.]


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 055   Volume 7: December 21, 1916 (Sutton Veny) - April 5, 1917 (26th General Hospital, B.E.F.)