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The Royal Army Medical Corps
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The Royal Army Medical Corps can be traced back to 1660.
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406 Capt. J. McNiff Royal Army Medical Corps. Captain McNiff of the RAMC was attached to the 8th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. |
517 Lt. J. A. Stenhouse Royal Army Medical Corps. Lt J A Stenhouse of teh RAMC was attached to the 8th battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. |
759 Capt. Peter Flemming Gow MID, DSO Indian Medical Services Peter Gow was commissioned into the Indian Medical Services. He landed in France with the Indian Expeditionary Force on the 26th of September 1914 as Medical Officer to the 16th and 17th Cavalry. He also served with the IEF in Mesopotamia from January 1916, between May and July he served as the Special Infectious Diseases Office on the staff of the 1st Army Corps, he was then appointed Staff Surgeon at 1st Army HQ.
He was Mentioned in Dispatches twice, on the 26th of June 1915 in France and on the 15th of August 1918 in Mesopotamia. He was awarded the DSO on the 27th of July 1916. His Citation Reads: For his gallantry on the 7th of April 1916 at Sannaiyat, Mesopotamia. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on several occasions, notably when he took one end of a stretcher after three bearers had been hit, and brought in a wounded officer.
After the war Peter worked at Eden Hospital, Calcutta becoming a Professor of Midwifery. When he retired he moved back to Dundee. |
783 Pte. George Eaddie Royal Army Medical Corps. My Great Uncle Pvt George Eaddie served in Egypt, Sulva Bay, Dardernelles & The Western Front with the RAMC. |
111566 Private Thomas Edward Lord Royal Army Medical Corps My uncle Tom was in France during WW 1, and as a result of shell shock was sent to Beckets Park, Leeds (2nd Northern general Hospital). I am interested to find any records of him. Yhnak you |
147289 Corporal Wilfred Sutcliffe 4th London General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps I cannot find out a lot about my grandfather-just snippetts from mymother who is now 87! I know that he met my grandmother Irene May Andreae whilst serving at the 4th London General Hospital. On their marriage cert he states his rank and address also listing that he is a clerk. I understand that units were stationed at the hospitals in order to 'pay off' injured and dead soldiers. My grandfather was deaf so would not have been classed as A1 at his original medical. He lived in Todmorden,Yorks and we believe that his deafness was caused by working in the cotton mills from a young age. He moved to Loughborough,Leics after his discharge and worked for Brush Electrics for many years. I understand that he got this job through his commanding officer. Would love to know who the officer was as it would guide me to which unit grandpa served in. Have tried the RAMC but they have no record and I know that a lot of archives were destroyed during the 2ndWW. My grandmother and her father served as volunteers with the St John Ambulance at 4th London General and have some oof their records supplied by the Red Cross Archives. |
204787 Pte. Henry Fitzgerald MM. 110th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Does anyone have any information about my Grandfather, Henry Fitzgerald? He died before I was born and have very little knowledge about his service during the Great War when he was with 110th Field Ambulance. |
204514 Sgt. G. Doors Royal Army Medical Corps I have just bought a pair of rather movingly hand-made trench art coffee pots from a charity shop. The main body’s of each are German shell cases, both dated 1917, the handles appear to be brass coolant tubes and the lids of each are mounted with three bullets. Both coffee pots carry roughly the same hand engraved inscription:
Sgt Doors G, RAMC
France 1914,15,16,17,18
Italy 1918
I would love to know more about this man who had such an apparently long service record, where he served and what he was doing in Italy, I would guess after the war, when he made these.
Any information that could add the personal story to these stirring relics of the war would be very gratefully received.
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162837 Edwin Foster Royal Army Medical Corps Father Edwin Foster served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and lived in Burnley at the time, previously Wigan. I know he served in Salonika during the First World War. The only story he told us as children was of a man being brought in from the field with a bad leg injury and all that had saved him were the maggots eating his rotting flesh. He lost his leg and the maggots were put back on to prevent Gangrene.
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145401 Lt Col Joseph Griffiths CMG. First Eastern General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps Lt Col Griffiths was a surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge before the Great War. He commanded the 1st Eastern General Hospital during the Great War.
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207049 Spr. Herbert Potter 208th Field Coy. Royal Engineers My Great Grandfather was Herbert Potter, Sapper 84711, 208th Field Company, 34th Division the Royal Engineers. on 10 August 1916 he was wounded (shell shock) near Pozieres / Bazentin-le-Petit, Somme, France. He was under the care of 104th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps until 17 August 1916 when he rejoined his unit.
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1455 Sjt. Harold John Williams 9th Australian Field Ambulance Harold Williams attended Woollahra Superior Public School, leaving at the age of 14,. He worked as a messenger-boy, then as a railway stores clerk. He sang with the Waverley Methodist Church choir as a boy soprano and was later an amateur baritone, he enjoyed football and cricket, playing for Waverley Cricket Club (1906–15) and finding success in Rugby Union as a wing-three-quarter with the Eastern Suburbs team, representing New South Wales against New Zealand in August 1914.
Harold enlisted on the 24th of July 1915 and travelled to England aboard the troop transport ship Argyllshire in May 1916, as a corporal with the 9th Field Ambulance. During the voyage he entertained his fellow soldiers with his ballads. After training in England, he was promoted to sergeant and proceeded to France with his unit in November 1916, seeing action at Armentières during the harsh winter. In January 1917, he was transferred at General William Birdwood's request to an entertainment unit, known as the 'Anzac Coves'. Harold rejoined the 9th Field Ambulance in March, saw action at Messines and Passchendaele. He was appointed regimental quartermaster-sergeant.
Whilst on leave in England, Williams sang at a private party at Sheffield in 1918 and was heard by several musical luminaries who insisted that he should begin voice lessons. In August he transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, where he met Dorothy Mason, a staff nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service, who he would marry in May 1919. After the Armistice Harold was attached A.I.F. Headquarters in London and studied singing with Charles Phillips. Demobilised from the army in July, he remained in London and found a civilian job as secretary to the Stearn Electric Lamp Company. Later he went on to a long and successful career in England and his native country, performing in opera, oratorio and concerts and giving radio broadcasts. |
1457 Pte. Geoffrey Maurice Barnewall Hales 13th Australian Field Ambulance Geoffrey Hales was studying medicine at the University of Sydney when he enlisted on the 1st of September 1916. He left sailed for England on the 9th of November with the 8th Reinforcements, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column. He transferred to the 13th Australian Field Ambulance in April 1917 and served at Messines and Ypres. He returned to Australia on the 17th of April 1918 and resumed his medical studies. |
206492 Cpl. Hercules Sossick Royal Army Medical Corps Hercules Sossick was my Grandfather and before WW1 he was a Fine Art Plaster Moulder working in the family business, 'Sossick & Sons Fine Art Moulders', Chelsea. He joined the 1st Middlesex Royal Engineers (Volunteers) in College Street, Chelsea, S.W. on 19/11/1906.
The story that I remember being told was that he was on parade one day when the men were asked if anyone had experience of plaster work. He stepped forward and ended up in the RAMC at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. He spent the war years there making moulds of stumps and limbs for the manufacture of artificial limbs, which were in such great demand due to the tremendous number of amputees returning from the front. He was transferred to the reserve on 10/11/1919 and returned to his business.
In 1927 he went to work for J.F.Rowley (1919) Ltd. which later became J.E.Hanger & Co. at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He worked there for over 30 years and retired as the foreman of the artificial limb repair shop. It was said that if anyone had a squeak or rattle in their artificial limb, my grandfather was the man they went to see. I have a number of photographs taken in the workshops at Alder Hey and have passed copies to the RAMC Museum at Mytchet. |
206077 Sergeant James Halstead Nutter MM with Bar Royal Army Medical Corps An account of James Halstead Nutter's gallant act may be seen in the Burnley News on Saturday, 27th January 1917 |
205780 Pte. William David Vaughan Royal Army Medical Corps William David Vaughan was my great-grandfather. I've recently begun researching my family tree and have found he was a Private in the RAMC. I don't know much about his service except that he served in Salonica in Greece in 1916. |
205731 Surg. H. S. Carter 2nd Northern General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps I am trying to gather information about a surgeon called HS Carter, who worked in the 2nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds, during the first world war and submitted a thesis for the degree of MD, to the Leeds University, in 1922. His field of interest was Causalgia. The original article states "The work has been carried out at the 2nd Northern General Hospital, now the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Leeds".Do you know whether these were the same?
I am conducting research into the history of Causalgia, and would be interested in any information about Mr Carter and the two hospitals mentioned.
Thank you
Kind regards
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205919 Pte. Abraham Hill Lord 10th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps My grandfather 8221 A H Lord RAMC was sent back from France sick, but not wounded, in Oct 1916. Probably gassed. Reclassified C2. Transferred to RAMC Prov Company Aldershot then Blackpool. Transferred to 362 Reserve Employment Company. Given new Army No. 251473. Reclassified B1 Aug 1917. Sent back to France. Then to 236 Divisional Employment Company, 39 Divn, Varangeville.
I am trying to establish when he went to Varangeville, probably Mar 1918, and when he was demobilised, probably mid Jan 1919. I have some notes he made about pay. The amount he was due in Sterling (old pence)and the amount he had already drawn, in Francs. From 22 Mar 1918 to 10 Jan 1919 304 days at 1/- (12d) which would be army pay, probably from when he was posted to Varangeville, but he also records an additional 304 days at 4d and a further 150 days at 4d.
I feel that these sums may give a clue to dates. Was the extra 4d per day anything to do with his good conduct stripe or was it for some other reason. |
207247 Pte. Colin Smart Royal Army Medical Corps Colin was posted to the 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester, on January 19th 1918. |
207395 Harry Heybyrne 17th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.5th Dec 1917) Harry was one of five brothers who served. He was killed while visiting his brother Henry in No.1 General Hospital at Etretat by "Drop Short". |
1763 Pte. Alfred Burns 57th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.6th Oct 1918) My Uncle, Alfred Burns, entered the War in France on 18th July 1915. He was taken Prisoner of War at Messines on 10th April 1918. He was initially held at the Friedrichsfeld Lager P.O.W camp and then transferred to the Kraushaar Remischule at Charleville where he died on the 6th October 1918 after contracting dysentary. He was buried in the camp cemetery at Charleville and on 11th December 1962 Alfred was re-buried at the Terlincthun British War Cemetery near Calais.
My Father told me that his Mother received a letter from a German Doctor praising Alfred for his efforts at the P.O.W camp ,treating wounded German and British troops. |
1721 David H. Joy 1st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps My Grandfather David H Joy served with 1st Field Ambulance, RAMC. His brother Patrick served with 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and was killed in action soon after this photograph was taken, at Mons on the 23rd of August 1914 |
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