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Medical Officer · 69 Field Ambulance (23 Division)

Philip Henry George Gosse

† 03/10/1959

Personal data

NameGosse
InitialsP.H.G.
Christian namePhilip Henry George
Date and place of birth?; 13.08.1879
ProfessionDoctor of Medicine

Extra information

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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge
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Gosse and Tubby knew each other before the war. Their New Forest homes were only a few miles distant.
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Author of 'Memoirs of a Camp-Follower' (1934). Writer on natural history.
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Died at Cambridge

Military data

RankMedical Officer
Regiment / Unit69 Field Ambulance (23 Division)
Date of death

Other information

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In the autumn of 1916 Tubby visited Gosse, who was billeted in a Poperinge convent at the time, to discuss what should be done about a shell-shocked boy who had deserted and come to Talbot House. Eventually they managed to get the boy back to England.

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Louagie, J., A Touch of Paradise in Hell: index