Having received notification from the
War Office that he should, ‘relinquish his commission on account of
ill-health caused by wounds’, Maj. Robert
Harwar Gill DSO (see 10th
April), who was on leave having been under treatment at 3rd
London General Hospital, Wandsworth, on account of wounds he had suffered in
October 1918, wrote (from his home address at Claremont House, Knaresborough) to
challenge the decision:
“I am at a loss to understand this
as I am at present on leave from Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital, Millbank,
where I am undergoing treatment by the eye specialist, the nose specialist and
bacteriologist. This leave was granted as the course of weekly injections I am
now taking (for 13 weeks from 5th February) could be administered
here by my own doctor at less expense. It was though possible that on my return
an operation to my nose would be necessary and also a further plastic operation
to my socket. The Medical Board at York on 29th March granted me a
month’s extension of leave but I have not received the usual War office
authority for this to enable me to claim my allowances. Will you please inform
me whether or not I should report my address to the War office ten days before
the expiration of my leave’.
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| Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO |
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