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Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Monday, 16 August 2021

World War 2 Eighty Years On - August 1941 - An Outbreak of Polio

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An outbreak of Infantile Paralysis (Polio) in the district during August affected over eighty people in the Slough area with one case...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

The way things were — in sickness and in health

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The treatment of illness before the National Health Service in 1948 was unbelievably different from what we have today. My earliest memories...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

A Soldier Who Lived In Eton Wick Whose Name Is Not On The War Memorial.

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Frederick Albert Boxall, 1880-1917 -  Private, M2/130622 Army Service Corps Frederick’s father, Robert Boxall, was a gardener from Kirdfor...
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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Fred Colbourn - Machine Gun Corps

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Fred Colbourn (Private No. 185017) - Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Fred was a married man and came to live in Eton Wick from Datchet. H...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

Henry George Moss (Private M2/097873) — Royal Army Service Corps

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Henry George Moss (Private M2/097873) — Royal Army Service Corps 50th Division Motor Transport Company George, as he was generally known,...
Sunday, 15 July 2018

H. DOBSON - WEST RIDING REGT

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Horace Charles Dobson (Private No. 32908) - 5th Battalion Duke Of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment - 2nd West Riding Brigade - West ...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Joseph Springford (Private No. 940171) - 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters

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Joseph Springford (Private No. 94017) - 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters - 117th Brigade - 39th Division. (Formerly No. 8671 The Cambridge...