St Woolos Cemetery - The Haunted Holy Ground
From the book "The Haunted Holy Ground" by Mike Buckingham and Richard Frame published in 1988.
Newport Past
The Unkindest Cut
By Mike Buckingham and Richard Frame
First published 1988
© Mike Buckingham and Richard Frame 2012
A military funeral accompanied the interment in St Woolos of Surgeon - Major R.J. Patton following his operation on somebody else at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport late in 1907.
This gentlemen who had been born in India in 1862 and had gained his doctorate at Edinburgh University was operating on a patient suffering from appedicitis when the scalpel slipped.
drawing by David Pow
The cut became infected and shortly afterwards the doctor who had saved another himself died.
The grave of Robert John Patton, surgeon,
who died after operating on a patient and cutting himself with the scalpel.
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