X-Nico

unusual facts about enteric fever



George Stringer

Some time after this he was wounded and developed enteric fever and Jaundice and was returned to the UK in June 1917.

Siege of Ladysmith

While Buller made repeated attempts to fight his way across the Tugela, the defenders of Ladysmith suffered increasingly from shortage of food and other supplies, and from disease, mainly enteric fever or typhoid, which claimed among many others, the life of noted war correspondent G.W. Steevens.


see also

Percy Dearmer

During World War I he served as chaplain to the British Red Cross ambulance unit in Serbia, where his wife died of enteric fever in 1915.

Siege of Ladysmith

George Warrington Steevens, British author and war correspondent, of enteric fever.