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Old 13th Feb 2023, 14:50
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One for the Historians

I am belatedly researching my father's activities in 1940 when he was a Codes and Cyphers officer in Egypt at HQ 202 Group at Heliopolis. While there he had a carbuncle on an arm and was transferred by air (a Bristol Bombay, he told me) to what appears in his records to be 2/5 Hospital and then to 2/10 Gen. Hospital. Before the days of antibiotics a carbuncle must have been a fairly serious matter, but can anyone suggest a location for either of those hospitals? He obviously survived and spent most of the rest of the War in Stalag Luft III after a period in Crete.
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I don't know if you can find anything here. I know nothing at all about the subject. For instance prefix 2/ signifies ?

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Many thanks for that steer. It at least locates the hospital in Egypt, but seems a bit askew with dates.
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