Robert Hugh Martin

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Robert Hugh Martin (1896 - March 14, 1918) was a British soldier who is perhaps the only known soldier to receive heart surgery during World War I. On November 14, 1917, he was wounded in the Salonika Campaign when he shot by a Bulgarian soldier. On January 13, 1918, he was transferred to St. Elmo Hospital in Valletta, Malta, where he underwent complex heart surgery in early 1918. The surgery was supervised by Charles Alfred Ballance. Martin later died of an infection on March 14, 1918, probably due to a lack of antibiotics which had not yet been invented. Trooper Martin was buried on Malta.^[1]

References

↑ "WW1 trooper who rewrote history books". Retrieved 20143-01-05.

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Name	Martin, Robert Hugh
Alternative names
Short description	British soldier
Date of birth	1896
Place of birth	Walkley, Sheffield
Date of death	March 14, 1918
Place of death

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