dressing, self-sealing device

One unopened Southalls self-sealing device dressing, enclosed in a transparent paper wrapper, a printed paper label on the dressing is visible through the wrapper and reads 'SOUTHALLS SELF-SEALING DEVICE PERFECT STERILIZATION: This Dressing should not be opened until it is required for immediate use'.

The donor's father was Captain E. E. Vezey of the Royal Ulster Rifles who was seconded in a training role to the Army in Burma in February 1941. Captain Vezey married just before he left and his wife sailed to Burma a few months later. They lived at Maymyo until the Japanese invasion when Captain Vezey helped to evacuate British personnel. Mrs Vezey left with medical/nursing personnel while Captain Vezey walked out with the army, through the jungle and eventually into India. Mrs Vezey worked at a hospital in Assam with refugees escaping from across the Burmese border. Captain Vezey managed to find his wife when he arrived in India and he was suffering from the effects of the long and difficult trek. Captain and Mrs Vezey moved around India with the Army and their last posting was at Deolali where the donor was born in the British Military Families' Hospital in June 1943. The Vezey's sailed from Bombay in the SS Orontes which was chartered as a troop ship, finally arriving in Liverpool in April 1945.

SOUTHALLS SELF-SEALING DEVICE PERFECT STERILIZATION This Dressing should not be opened until it is required for immediate use