39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps served with 13th (Western) Division. 13th (Western) Division was formed as part of Kitchener's First New Army and began to assemble on Salisbury Plain. 40th Brigade moved to Chiseldon and Cirencester in September 1914 and 39th Brigade to Basingstoke in January 1915. Near the end of February the Division concentrated at Blackdown in Hampshire. They moved to the Mediterranean from the 13th of June 1915 landing at Alexandria then moving to Mudros, by the 4th of July to prepare for a landing at Gallipoli. The infantry landed on Cape Helles between the 6th and 16th of July to relieve 29th Division. They returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between the 3rd and 5th of August. They were in action in The Battle of Sari Bair, The Battle of Russell's Top and The Battle of Hill 60, at ANZAC. Soon afterwards they transferred from ANZAC to Suvla Bay. They were evacuated from Suvla on the 19th and 20th of December 1915, and after a weeks rest they moved to the Helles bridgehead. They were in action during The last Turkishh attacks at Helles on the 7th of January 1916 and were evacuated from Helles on the 8th and 9th. The Division concentrated at Port Said, holding forward posts in the Suez Canal defences. On the 12th of February 1916 they moved to Mesopotamia, to join the force being assembled near Sheikh Sa'ad for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara. They joined the Tigris Corps on the 27th of March and were in action in the unsucessful attempts to relieve Kut. They were in action in The Battle of Kut al Amara, The capture of the Hai Salient, he capture of Dahra Bend and The passage of the Diyala, in the pursuit of the enemy towards Baghdad. Units of the Division were the first troops to enter Baghdad, when it fell on the 11 March 1917. The Division then joined "Marshall's Column" and pushed north across Iraq, fighting at Delli 'Abbas, Duqma, Nahr Kalis, crossing the 'Adhaim on the 18 April and fighting at Shatt al 'Adhaim. Later in the year they were in action in the Second and Third Actions of Jabal Hamrin and fought at Tuz Khurmatli the following April. By the 28th of May 1918, Divisional HQ had moved to Dawalib and remained there until the end of the war, enduring extreme summer temperatures.

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Minns MC, DSO, MID.. Allan Noel. Capt.
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Capt. Allan Noel Minns MC, DSO, MID. 39th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

Allan Minns was born in Thetford in 1891 and brought up in the town. In 1904, his father, Allan Glaisyer Minns (who had been born in the Bahamas), became mayor there, the first black and minority ethnic person to become mayor of any town in England. His mother was Emily Pearson (his father's first wife who was born in Northallerton). Allan junior went to Thetford Grammar School, winning a Junior Science Scholarship. His father and his uncle had both been doctors in Thetford, and after training at Guys Hospital, Allan also became a doctor.
He was commissioned in September 1914 and served for six years in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He rose to the rank of captain in March 1918. He won the Military Cross for his bravery at Gallipoli on 30th of August 1915 at Sulva Bay. He also received the DSO in December 1916 and was twice mentioned in despatches.
He survived the war and died in a road accident in 1921.
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Pte. James Henry Sugden 39th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.11th Feb 1917)

James Sugden died on 11th February 1917 and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq.
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