| Surname: | Payne |
| Initials: | B G |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7262802 |
| Notes: | CMP. Formerly Royal Army Medical Corps, transferred to CMP. Casualty List 228, BEF, France, wounded, date not reported. 7/8/40 Discharged. Bertram George Payne. Extract from the Staffordshire Advertiser 1/6/1940. Bombed in Belgian Hospital. Corporal B G Payne of the Corps of Military Police who was a Leicestershire constable at Hinckley before the war, has written to his parents t Burton-on-Trent describing a devil of a journey on a hospital train in France. "For five days we were up and down the coast trying to get a boat" he says. " The hospital I was in in Belgium was bombed and so they moved me from there to another Belgian hospital and then the English medical corps found me and I was transferred to the English hospital and then to England." Payne has a wound in the thigh and a fracture. |