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| Martin Henry Dawson , enroute to battlefields of WWI |
He also had two grave war wounds which left him permanently partially disabled.
Time spent recovering from those wounds and the resulting infections, together with a year overseas as an orderly in Dalhousie's Number Seven Base Hospital, meant he had spent almost half of his war in hospitals or recovering in convalescent homes.
Perhaps as a result, he had decided to change his career plans and become a medical doctor.
Unfortunately,some highly ambitious medical students who successfully avoided war service ( such as Howard Florey and Chester Keefer) had a vital four year start on him in his new profession.
Despite all this, I argue that the war did not fundamentally change his personality.
