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Pte. Harry Axson

British Army 1/5th Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment

Harry Axson, enlisted in the 1/5th Bn. King's Regiment (Liverpool) on 1st Sept 1914. He arrived in Le Havre on 21st Feb 1915. On the 3rd Jul 1915 he was received by the Field Ambulance and transferred to No 6 Casualty Clearing Station at Merville, France. From there, on 8th Jul 1915, he was transferred to No 5 General (Base) Hospital, at Rouen. On the 11th Jul 1915 he was transferred to England on board HMHS St Andrew from Rouen. After he had a period of hospitalisation in the UK he returned to France, only to be wounded in action, sent back to the lines and then gassed, and eventually casevac'd back to the UK again in 1917 on board the RMT Ville de Liege, a fast evacuation transport ship. Interestingly, by the end of the war when he was demobilised he was classed as A1 physically fit.



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