Private Walter
Robertson was a patient at Hickwells in early 1916. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads:
Little Bits off Shrapnel, Little Bits
Off Shell makes A Soldier Weary
And Wishes He was in _______
Pte Walter Robertson
Second A & S Highlanders
Wounded Cambrin
On 22nd January 1916
There is insufficient
information included here to identify Private Robertson and the battalion war
diary for the day that he was wounded does not go into great detail
either. The entry reads:
CAMBRIN
“Mining officers still unable to say
whether Germans are under our lines… a relief seems to have taken place in the
German line, trumpets being blown and much shouting across, this seems to
indicate Saxons, a fine cold night.”
There is no mention
of casualties on this date but there is also no summary included of casualties
for the month either.
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