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Personal Information. Name: James Shrither. Date of Birth: June 25th, 1895. Place of Birth: Truro, United Kingdom. Most Recent Place of Residence: Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Most Recent Occupation: Fishmonger. Service Information. Allegiance: United Kingdom. Branch: Royal Army Medical Corps. Enlisted: August 8th, 1914. Rank: Private. Biographical Information. Born to a lower middle class family in the Cornish town of Truro, James' father spent most of his (and his son's) life struggling to find stable, comfortable clerical work. When James was merely three years of age, in 1898, his family moved to Plymouth, then to Exeter in 1901 and Bournemouth in 1903. These constant gallivantings left the Shrither family in a precarious financial situation; much of James' early days consisted of bouncing between small tenements and cramped boarding houses. Such an unstable youth left James emotionally unfulfiled as well. Although he had learnt from those around him to be playful and outgoing, he never made lasting friends. Perhaps the most important part of James' childhood was the Shrithers' stay in Bournemouth, between 1903 and 1908. One of his close friends was constantly picked on, harrassed, a target of a great many insults... James, himself having spent much of his childhood alone, was the only one of his classmates to understand him, but before he could turn his life around, before the great orchard of ambition could sprout even a single bud or flower, the family departed for London. The Shrithers' stay in London was brief, tumultuous, and unpleasant; departing in January of 1909, the family arrived in Clacton-on-Sea, where James found work peddling smoked fish for a merchant at the Pier. He remained in that line of work for five whole years. The merchant saw a spark of something within James - but before anything could come of it, in August of 1914, the Great War began. With the encouragement of his father, and a sense of misguided righteousness, James enlisted on August 8th, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps. For the first time in a long while, he felt some sense of purpose and camraderie. In February of 1915, he completed his training; after that, he spent an entire year at the 2nd Eastern General Hospital in Brighton, where he first witnessed the true horrors of war. Men missing arms or legs, some forever blinded or deaf... he could hardly bear most of the operation rooms, especially, carrying buckets of blood, pinkish guts pooled in piles within, back and forth, seeing men torn open to their very flesh. From March to August of 1916, James was assigned to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, before being reassigned to serve aboard Her Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic, departing from Southampton onboard the grand liner during her fourth voyage. He has shown himself to be an optimist, ambitious in his work, as misguided as that ambition may be. For the first time in his life, he feels a pride that he has always so greatly longed for...
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