Description
1914-15 Star Medal Trio A/Sgt Oliver Royal Artillery. Wounded Shell Shock, From Fence Houses
1914-15 Star correctly impressed ‘64036 Bmbr. J. Oliver R.F.A.’
Pair correctly impressed ‘64036 A- Sjt. J. Oliver R.A.’.
Some papers have survived for Oliver and are digitised online.
Oliver lived at 2 Chilton Moor, Fences Houses, (Houghton le Spring) . A coal miner employed by the Lampton Coal Co. Ltd, Fence Houses. Served in France & Flanders with ‘D’ 76 Howitzer Battery RFA.
Wounded 24/9/1917 Ypes, gunshot wound buttocks/right thigh and returned to the UK. Later one Doctor states ‘The G.S.W. is now healed and causing no disability. There are marked signs of Neurasthenia, slow cerebration, faulty memory, stuttering and slight tremors of hands, some prolongation of first sound-heart otherwise normal.
Oliver was discharged (shell shock) and entitled to a Silver War Badge.
His papers also note ‘Newcastle- Died 13.6.22 of Sub-acute Infective Endocarditis’
