Detail victim

Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Oakley, Canford
• Land Dorset, England
• Family Son of Tom and Sarah Chissell, of Oakley House, Wimborne, Dorset; four brothers, Oakley, Percy, Owen and Gordon; five sisters, Blanche, Bessie, Daisy,Vera and Sybil;
• Education Middlesex Hospital
• Profession Doctor
• Extra info In Roll of Honour University of London Officer's Training Corps (1921)

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Medals Military Cross
• Regiment and unit RAMC
• Other data related to military career M C 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
  duty in tending the wounded both of his own
  battalion and others and organising their
  evacuation. He worked continuously in the open for twenty-four hours under heavy shell
  .and machine-gun fire. When the battalion
  was relieved he remained until the last man
  of his brigade had been taken away.' (LG 19/04/1918);
  Attached 1 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Death

• Wounded Bodmin Copse, near Geluveld
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - BB - 10

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