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Casualties at Tower Hospital

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John SHAMBLEY

Rank / Number
Regiment
Hospital
Dates in Hospital
Private / 11974
2nd Batt. King's Own Scottish Borderers
Tower
May 1915
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​John Shambley was born in Wigan in 1895 and in July 1914 enlisted with the 2
nd battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. and was wounded on Hill 60 at Ypres on 17th April 1915.




​After being wounded John was transferred to the Tower VAD Hospital, Rainhill in May 1915.  Below is a letter to the Liverpool Echo dated 13th May 1915 signed by John and several other patients.
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John subsequently returned to action and in July 1916 his name again appears on a casualty list.  He was injured five times and at some stage was treated at an Auxiliary Hospital at Wharton Hall, Skelton, Yorkshire.
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John Henry seated in a group of 4 soldiers from the KOSB’s.  John has a corporal’s stripes and 3 wound stripes visible. Probably taken in 1917-18.
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​In October 1918, Corporal J. H. Shambley was discharged from the Army.  In March 1919 he married Emma Jane Shepherd in Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire. 




Photographs courtesy of Keith and Norma Anderson. Norma's mother, Margaret is one of John Shambley's daughters.
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