122385 Major William Robert HENDERSON, OBE, RAMC: POW

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  1. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Major Henderson, O.B.E., M.B., F.R.C.S. was captured at Krombeke, Belgium on 30th May 1940

    LG 2nd April 1940
    LG 18th December 1945
    LG 11th May 1948
     

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  2. davidbfpo

    davidbfpo Patron Patron

    One wonders what happened to after 1945. Were his best years as a surgeon to come?
     
  3. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

     
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  4. slackers

    slackers Junior Member

    I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, but it should be noted that Major Henderson was Chief British Physician at Stalag XXI-A Schildberg, Wartheland (the town is now called Ostrzeszow in Poland) from at least March 1942 through February 1943, after which he was transferred to Obermassfeld. This is according to Red Cross inspection reports for that period. He may well have been among the "repatriables" who arrived at Stalag XXI-A in December '41 (Christmas Eve, in fact), after spending several weeks at Rouen waiting for a prisoner exchange that never happened. There was a Reserve-Lazaret (military hospital) in Schildberg operating alongside the Stalag.
     
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  5. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Major Henderson is listed here amongst other fellow "code writers".

    So much more than a surgeon.

    Stalag IXC

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.
     
  6. Nick Frost

    Nick Frost Member

    My mother from Leeds had a cereable haemorrhage in 1952 she was rushed to leeds general infirmary where luckily Dr Henderson was practicing she was only 28 at the time apparently the younger you are the worse it is, the burst vein was in an unreachable part of the brain so he did an arteria gram and found the offending vein having cut the blood supply to this vein my mother was paralysed for 3 months but the human body been an amazing thing the blood supply found a new route and she went on to give berth to me in 1962 and sadly died in 2017 aged 93 she told me Dr Henderson wrote a book in which my mother had a mention what an amazing life he led and the miracle,s in Neuro surgery he performed all the best nick frost.
     
  7. davidbfpo

    davidbfpo Patron Patron

    Looking for his book - without luck - I found this summary of his career:
    Link: Henderson, William Robert (1904 - 1975)
     
  8. Nick Frost

    Nick Frost Member

    Many thanks for that David I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the skill of this man, my father was in the 4th battalion coldstream guards armoured I wish he and my mother had have known about this great mans wartime exploits, once again many thanks nick frost.
     
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