This gives a brief insight into the life of a World War One soldier.

It covers 28½ months in the life of Private 267061 Henry George Collett

of the 1^st Bucks Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Bucks Light Infantry.

His family details are provided in

Part 11 – The Welford-on-Avon Line (Ref. 11P45)

England	Enlisted at Burslem in Staffordshire	24-05-1915
England	Joined Royal Engineers as driver - No 173779	28-03-1916
France	2/1^st Bucks Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire – Private No 5256	29-01-1917
France	1/1^st Bucks Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire – Private No 267061	17-02-1917
France	Admitted to 1/3^rd South Midland Field Ambulance with pyrexia of undiagnosed origin - def. pyrexia is an abnormal elevation of body temperature	19-03-1917
France	Admitted to No 48 Casualty Clearing Station - this could have been either Bandaghem, Mendinghem or Dozinghem as referred to cryptically by the troops	20-03-1917
France	Admitted to No 5 General Hospital in Rouen	23-03-1917
France	Evacuated to England on the 410 bed hospital ship SS Gloucester Castle which was torpedoed on 30^th March 1917 during its journey between Le Havre and Southampton. On board at the time were 402 of which only three lives were lost, the survivors being transferred to rescue ship. The ship was towed to Southampton where it was repaired and back in service with two weeks	29-03-1917
England	Period of convalescence
England	Embarked ship at Southampton for France	23-07-1917
France	Landed at Le Harve	24-07-1917
	Taken to No 55 Infantry Base Depot in Rouen	25-07-1917
France	Released for duty	14-08-1917
Belgium	Travelled via Esquelbecq	16-08-1917
Belgium	Travelled via Houtkerque	17-08-1917
Belgium	Taken sick from 25^th to 27^th August 1917	25-08-1917
Belgium	Musketry Course at Mondicourt near Arras	28-08-1917
Belgium	Based at B Company School Camp between Watou and St Jans ter Bizen	30-08-1917
Belgium	At the front line 400 yards east of Winchester Farm	08-10-1917
Belgium	Injured and taken in by 1^st/2^nd South Midland Field Ambulance with shrapnel wounds to the head and legs, the latter diagnosed as fractured femur	08-10-1917
Belgium	Admitted to No 4 Casualty Clearing Station	09-10-1917
Belgium	Died of his injuries	09-10-1917
Belgium	Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery – Grave 10, Plot 9, Row J at Westvleteren in West-Vlaanderen