Robert Hugh Martin

Robert Hugh Martin (1896 – 14 March 1918) was a British soldier who is perhaps the only known soldier to receive heart surgery during World War I. On 14 November 1917 he was wounded in the Salonika Campaign when he shot by a Bulgarian soldier. On 13 January 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 14 March 1918, probably due to a lack of antibiotics which had not yet been invented. Trooper Martin was buried on Malta.^[1]

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1. ↑ "WW1 trooper who rewrote history books". Retrieved 20143-01-05.  Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)