| Notes: | MMP & MFP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 10/6/17 to 17/12/17. Enlisted 11/12/1915, discharged 19/8/1918 no longer physically fit. Served Home 11/12/1915, army reserve 12/12/1915 to 30/5/1916, Home 31/5/1916 to 9/7/1917, BEF 10/6/1917 to 19/12/1917, Home 18/12/1918. Home address: Hight St. Wooler, Northumberland. Served in the Northumberland Constabulary. Enlisted age 28.2 years, occupation Horseman. Letter from the Connaught Hospital, Aldershot dated 4/5/1918 states: This man is clearly suffering from a definite neurosis although he has evidently been treated at various hospitals for many month as some ? thing. If you board him out now you launch a helpless person upon the civilian population. Far better to send him to ward 3 to see if any improvement is possible before a final step is taken. 19/8/19 discharged.
Info from Pension Index Cards:- Whittle, James, MMP, P/3158, A/L/Cpl, 25/9/16, 2/MW/4646, Market Place, Wooler, Northumberland. Stamp: Ad 21/8/18 at 27/6 from 20/8/18 to 8/9/18, Chelsea no. VV50.1509, received 20/8/18. Also:- 2/MW/4646. Whittle, James, MMP, P/3158, A/L/Cpl, 19/8/19 to discharge, born 1887, married, Market Place, Wooler, Northumberland, Chiviot Street, Wooler, 20/8/19 he was awarded a pension for Neurasthenia, (chronic fatigue syndrome) attr.
James Whittle. |
