grandfather injured at ypres

[kittykittykat]

my grandfather CRESSWELL REAY b 1893  in Hartlepool . Was in the First world war and injured at ypres.  the family tell me he was in hospital at  Oswestry for many months .   he died in 1962 aged 68, but I can remember him being confined to bed in his latter years.
1.  has oswestry always been an orthopaedic hospital, or was it used as something else after ww1
2. how can I find out why he was in hospital.
3 he enlisted on 2/3/14 discharged on 5/4/19 listed as 392(xvia) sick.  what does this mean?
Many thanks
Christine

[Millmoor]

Hi Christine

There is a World War 1 service record for Creswell Reay in the military records on Ancestry. Seem to be quite a few pages and was born Hartlepool 1893.

William

[1716]

3 he enlisted on 2/3/14 discharged on 5/4/19 listed as 392(xvia) sick.  what does this mean?

http://www.forrestdale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/KingsRegs1912/Para392Introduction.html

(xvia)    (16a)    Surplus to military requirements (having suffered impairment since entry into the service)

[kittykittykat]

Ive only just realised that my grandfather was born  CreSSwell, but enlisted as creSwell,  he seems to have dropped the double S as it suited him.  my father too was cresswell he hated the name and was always known as Chris

[millymcb]

There is a bit about the military camp and hospital here
http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/packages/war/war_h05.htm

and
http://www.1914-1918.net/hospitals_uk.htm

Milly