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Robert Hugh MARTIN
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- Robert Hugh MARTIN. Private, 75965, 1st/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry. He died at St Elmo Hospital, Valetta after surviving a complex heart operation by Sir Charles Ballance and Dr Marguerite White, to have a rifle bullet removed from his right ventricle with forceps , but sadly died from infection as antibiotics had not been invented 14th March 1918, aged 21 years. He was the first person in the world to have a heart operation. The son of Harry and Jeanetta Martin, of Glenbourne, Totley Rise, Sheffield.
WW1 trooper who rewrote history books
Historians always assumed soldiers of the Great War did not undergo heart surgery - new research shows they were wrongwww.telegraph.co.uk
All at rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot C Row XVII Grave 4
