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1961 Pte. George BURDETT Derbyshire Yeomanry D.o.w. Gallipoli 1915

Discussion in 'Prewar' started by Guy, Feb 12, 2025.

  1. Guy

    Guy Looker-upper

    I recently read the 'War History of the Derbyshire Yeomanry 1914-1919'
    My great uncle served with the Derbyshire Yeomanry, dismounted, in an infantry role, alongside George Burdett during the Gallipoli campaign. .
    BURDETT DERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY.png
    1894 Alfreton, Derbyshire - Died of wounds Gallipoli 23rd August 1915 aged 21

    Hill 10 Cemetery III.F.1

    TYPICAL HEROISM
    I remember no more gallant case than Private Burdett, and this I was told by the doctor of the Brigade dressing station on August 21st.
    This man came to the dressing station (a mud hut through which bullets were passing fairly plentifully) having suffered a severe face wound. Without going into details, it was sufficiently bad to attract the doctor's attention, but on being told to come and have it dressed he refused to do so until several others had been attended to first.
    After waiting for half an hour, he allowed himself to be attended to, and was just departing, the dressing having been completed, when the doctor asked him if he had been hit anywhere else?
    "No" he said, "Only a little one here", pointing to his stomach.
    In spite of his assurance that it was nothing much, the doctor insisted on further investigation, and in his amazement discovered poor Burdett had been cut clean open.
    Nothing could be done for him and he died within three days without murmur or complaint.


    Lieutenant Colonel G.A. Strutt T.D.
    The Derbyshire Yeomanry War History 1914-1919
     
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