Complex sentence: Harry Wright Newman, published privately by the author, 1838, p.40 was commissioned a captain of the Medical Corps and served in France for 14 months as a surgeon with the First Division, Field Hospital no.12.
Split into simpler sentences: Harry Wright Newman, published privately by the author, 1838, p.40. He was commissioned a captain of the Medical Corps and served in France for 14 months as a surgeon with the First Division, Field Hospital no.12.