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Pte. Frederick William Earwaker
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Chichester
My grandfather Frederick Earwaker worked at Shippams in Chichester and joined up in 1916. He took part in the assault on High Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme, and was shot in the back on 9th September 1916. He was treated by a German first raider in a shell hole and under cover of darkness and walked to a trench dressing station. He eventually went to Rouen field hospital where he was operated on and thence via HMHS Asturias to Milton hospital in Portsmouth. By the 22nd November 1916 he was in Castle Hospital convalescing. He described the food as "first rate... rabbit pies, beefsteak, puddings etc. The nurses are very nice here, too". He appears to have left around January 1917, by which point he was at the eastern command unit at Shoreham. He never returned to the front but served out the war in the Labour Corps and the RAF in the UK. He returned to work at Shippams after the war and completed 50 years’ service. He died months short of retirement in 1961.
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