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Son of Oscar Benno Pedro SEPPELT and Sophie Helene Henriette SEPPELT nee SCHROEDER

Husband of Therese Marie SEPPELT nee SCHNEIDER

November 1914 - Mr. J.G. Seppelt, so of Mr. B. Seppelt, of Seppeltsfield, who went to London in March to further his studies and practical experinence in Architecture, has now joined the Royal Army Medical Corps for the front. Mr. Seppelt is with the 2nd London Sanitary Company, R.A.M.C. attached to the 22nd Battalion.

Writing to his relatives from France recently  Mr. J. G.  Seppelt, who is at the front with his regiment, gave a  thrilling account of several hair-breadth escapes he  had. On one occasion he and seven companions of the  ambulance contingent, to which he was attached, went in a party to pick up some wounded men and while so  engaged a shell burst near, killing all but himself. On  another time a stretcher he was helping to carry was  smashed by piece of a shell, and on yet another occasion while he was making up his reports in tent at  night by candlelight, the candle, which was within an  inch or two of his head, was shot away by a stray bullet. Mr. Seppelt says that some other simply  marvellous escapes have been noted in his own  immediate ken, the stories of them beine more like  romances than of real facts. He also says that many of the tragedies of the fight have been almost equally unbelievably awful.

Brother Norbert Erno SEPPELT also appears to have served with the British