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**paulmcmillan** · 12th May 2022, 10:07

Can anyone please access this record and see if dearth cause is stated and where occurred etc > Thanks Paul - I assume illness

J. W Odell
in the UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923

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Name: J. W Odell
Rank: Pte
Record Type: Death
Military Service Region: Eastern/London/South East, Eastern/London/South East
Military Country: England
Death Date: 3 Feb 1916
Service Number: 1802
Corps, Regiment or Unit: Yeomanry Regiment
Title: WWI Pension Record Cards and Ledgers
Description: PRC Ledgers
Reference Number: 11/PP/44836/D/36

**wwrsimon** · 12th May 2022, 10:24

Paul

The Dependant's Pension card doesn't record a cause of death.

The dependant in question is his mother, Louisa A. Odell, 87 Cardigan Road, Reading.

The entry in the UK Army Register of Soldier's Effects records that he died after discharge, which had occurred on December 7th 1915.

However, his death was reported in the Reading Mercury of February 12th 1916, page 2 (see FindMyPast.co.uk).

The article records that he died of consumption at his parents' residence. He had been serving in Egypt, but was only there a few weeks before falling ill. He was sent back to England to hospitals in Birmingham and Nortorn (in Gloucestershire), and then sent to Pinewood, Hastings. Once it was found that there was nothing that could be done he was sent to his home, where he died.

Regards

Simon

**Resmoroh** · 12th May 2022, 11:59

Careful with “Pinewood, Hastings”! There was a Pinewood Sanatorium (for the then very prevalent "Consumption") at Wokingham (GE 51.410492 -0.846127). This is only 5 miles from the deceased’s NOK’s Reading address.
HTH
Peter Davies

**wwrsimon** · 12th May 2022, 12:33

Good spot Peter.

Looking on the newspaper archive, it seems there was also a Southern Sanatorium at Pinewood, Hastings? Maybe they were connected?

The one in Hastings was also reported as the Canadian Sanatorium in 1917.

Regards

Simon