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136th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps



   136th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps served with 40th Division. The Division was formed between September and December 1915. They proceeded to France between the 2nd and 6th of June 1916 and concentrated near Lillers. They went into the front line near Loos and were later in action in The Battle of the Ancre on the Somme. In 1917 they saw action during The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The capture of Fifteen Ravine, Villers Plouich, Beaucamp and La Vacquerie abd The Cambrai Operations, including the capture of Bourlon Wood in November. In 1918 they fought in The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of Bapaume on the Somme then the The Battle of Estaires and The Battle of Hazebrouck in Flanders, suffering heavy losses. The Division was reduced to a cadre and were reorganised, returning to action in July in The Final Advance in Flanders and the Battle of Ypres. At the armistice they had just been relieved and moved to Lannoy. On the 2th of November they moved to Roubaix and demobilisation began.

10th Oct 1917 Orders  location map

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25th Nov 1917 Orders

30th Nov 1917 Congratulations

18th Dec 1917 Patients

1st Apr 1918 Reliefs Complete

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4th Apr 1918 Quiet

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6th Apr 1918 Reliefs Completed

7th Apr 1918 Reorganisation

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136th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

during the Great War 1914-1918.

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  • Twigg Sidney. Sgt.

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Sgt. Sidney Twigg 136th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

My paternal grandfather Sidney Twigg was born in 1886. He was 28 at the start of the war,and already the headmaster of Doveridge village school since 1906. He served with the RAMC as a Sergeant with 136th Field Ambulance, attached to the 40th Division of the British Army, which saw action in the Somme, Cambrai, Flanders, Ypres, and other battles.

His medals from WW1 are the "Mutt and Jeff" pair. After 1918 he returned to his headmaster job, staying in that post until he retired in 1951, and is well remembered on the Doveridge village website.

During WW2 he was in the Home Guard, and also a Special Constable. His medals include the Defence Medal, and the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal with 3 bars from the WW2 period. He died in 1961.







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