Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
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with them 2 nights in billets and then went up into the trenches north of Ypres. Four days later I got the 'blighty' that sent me to Rouen for a month, then over to a place near Salisbury, the seat of the Radnors, where I spent about 10 days and then got home. About the third week of June I started to walk without crutches, went up to town, and was promptly put back to hospital for an operation. This was followed after a week or two at home by another in August, again in September, and October. In January I left Guys Hospital and went to King [illegible] Home at Brighton but returned to hospital after a month for a final operation. Then back to Brighton again and at last got passed for light duty 3 weeks ago and here I am just about 12 months after my last visit here. Six operations in 10 months including the one I had on my leg in Rouen: not a bad record, what? The part of my anatomy affected was one not usually mentioned in the best society but as you are an old pal I don't mind telling you it is not a thousand miles from the cushions that nature has provided us with to sit down on. The malady is called fistula by the surgical authorities but | with them 2 nights in billets and then went up into the trenches north of Ypres. Four days later I got the 'blighty' that sent me to Rouen for a month, then over to a place near Salisbury, the seat of the Radnors, where I spent about 10 days and then got home. About the third week of June I started to walk without crutches, went up to town, and was promptly put back to hospital for an operation. This was followed after a week or two at home by another in August, again in September, and October. In January I left Guys Hospital and went to King [illegible] Home at Brighton but returned to hospital after a month for a final operation. Then back to Brighton again and at last got passed for light duty 3 weeks ago and here I am just about 12 months after my last visit here. Six operations in 10 months including the one I had on my leg in Rouen: not a bad record, what? The part of my anatomy affected was one not usually mentioned in the best society but as you are an old pal I don't mind telling you it is not a thousand miles from the cushions that nature has provided us with to sit down on. The malady is called fistula by the surgical authorities but | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0089 | ||
+ | Box 1 | ||
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+ | GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver | ||
+ | Correspondence inward, 1916. |
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30th Reserve Battn. C.E.F.
(2nd British Columbia Regt)
with them 2 nights in billets and then went up into the trenches north of Ypres. Four days later I got the 'blighty' that sent me to Rouen for a month, then over to a place near Salisbury, the seat of the Radnors, where I spent about 10 days and then got home. About the third week of June I started to walk without crutches, went up to town, and was promptly put back to hospital for an operation. This was followed after a week or two at home by another in August, again in September, and October. In January I left Guys Hospital and went to King [illegible] Home at Brighton but returned to hospital after a month for a final operation. Then back to Brighton again and at last got passed for light duty 3 weeks ago and here I am just about 12 months after my last visit here. Six operations in 10 months including the one I had on my leg in Rouen: not a bad record, what? The part of my anatomy affected was one not usually mentioned in the best society but as you are an old pal I don't mind telling you it is not a thousand miles from the cushions that nature has provided us with to sit down on. The malady is called fistula by the surgical authorities but
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1916.