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HOME Museum Sales Donations Contact Us REGIMENTAL HISTORY 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century First World War Second World War Actions & Movements Battle Honours FAMILY HISTORY Resources Further Reading Links PHOTO GALLERY ENQUIRIES FURTHER READING LINKS		PHOTO GALLERY First World War Wounded Soldiers and Medical Care - Page Three Lance Corporal Sydney Cartmell, number 2094, of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and two friends. Sydney volunteered for service on 4th September 1914 and was one of the 'gallant 200' volunteers in Lancaster and Morecambe. Accession Number KO1417/08 5th Battalion Group at Didcot, the card is postmarked 17th September 1914. Sydney Cartmell is pictured on the right end. Accession Number KO1417/07 Wound Label for Sydney Cartmell. He was wounded in the face, head and left hand and had a compound fracture of the right tibia. He was wounded on 16th October 1916 and had been administered 1/4 grain of morphine by mouth. Accession Number KO1417/06 Letter from the padre at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station dated 15th October 1916 to Sydney Cartmell's father back in England. 'Severe shell wounds.....he is conscious but very weak....' Accession Number KO1417-04 Lance Corporal Sydney Cartmell in hospital blues back in England. He was discharged on 17th May 1917. Accession Number KO1417/10 Certificate for the Silver War Badge issued to Sydney Cartmell to recognise his discharge from the Forces due to wounding. Accession Number KO1417-13 Wounded Soldiers and Medical Care - Page Two Wounded Soldiers and Medical Care - Page Four © Images are copyright, Trustees of the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. You must seek permission prior to publication of any of our images.