My great uncle, with the Cameron Highlanders of Canada, took a bullet wound in France & also was very ill with VD. He was in & out of hospitals quite a bit (mostly from the symptoms of the latter) & upon his last hospital discharge, went AWOL for nearly a year. Likely he was hiding out in the Scottish Highlands, where he was born & had family (he immigrated to Canada in 1905) He turned up at HQ in England just in time to get a boat back to Canada. He was arrested, tried, docked pay for the days he was missing & sent back to Canada. Mary Fletcher Harris Canada