End of January 1917

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As January drew to a close, Douglas is sent for a medical examination of himself!

“I had a Medical Board at the barracks one day. Drs. Kilpatrick and Graham thoroughly overhauled me and discovered that I was anaemic, had a heart murmur and that I was rheumatic! Rot! They granted me a month’s rest. Good! But I never got it”!

The Matron of Perth War Hospital with a wounded South African

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