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No. 6 General Hospital

10th Jan 1915 Accomodation

20th Jan 1915 Reinforcements

27th Jan 1915 Nurses Required

10th Feb 1916 Field Allowance

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Brown Sylvia Daisy. Sister.
Clarence Kate Dorothy .
Merifield Frances Richard. Pte.
Palfreyman George Beresford. Sgt. (d.5th Jan 1918)
Ross Walter Alexander. Pte.
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Kate Dorothy Clarence Queen Alexandras Royal Naval Nursing Service
Kate Clarence joined with her class from Saskatoon City Hospital. She was at No. 6 General Hospital in Rouen in October 1917. Later at Wharncliff War Hospital, Wadseley, Sheffield where she was married to Lt. William Abdy Sycamore.
She had been orphaned in 1891 and, along with her brother Frank, was sent to Canada through Annie MacPherson Home Spitalfields. Arriving in Stratford Ontario she was later educated at Saskatoon before joining the Queen Alexandra Division.
Richard Hobby

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Pte. Frances Richard Merifield 21st Battalion
Frank Merifield is one of 348 names on a World War 1 signature quilt from Victoria, Australia. This is his story compiled from his military record.
Frank enlisted on the 1st of February 1916 at Trafalger in Gippsland, They had been living at nearby Thorpdale. His wife Eva, was noted as his next of kin and Frank initially put her address down as Romsey but was later changed to Strathmerton, Vic when she returned to live near her family. One month after enlisting Frank entered camp at Ascot Vale, in A company, 10th Depot Battalion. On 25th March 1916 he was transferred to Williamstown for 3 days. A week later he embarked at Melbourne per HMAT A14 Euripides. On the quilt Frank's rank is shown as Signaller. He never held this rank. He was always a Private. Some troops disembarked from the Euripides in Egypt. The 29th Battalion reinforcements disembarked in Suez on 12th May 1916 and the 60th Battalion reinforcements in Alexandria on 25th May. There is no mention in his records where Frank disembarked. As the 21st Battalion had moved from Egypt to France in March, it is likely the reinforcements went on to England and the training camps on Salisbury Plain.
The next entry in his file is in England when he transferred from No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield to the Military Convalescent Hospital, Epsom on 13th July 1916 after pneumonia. When he had been admitted to hospital in the first place is not noted. The Woodcote Park Military Convalescent Hospital, Epsom, was staffed by the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The original 500 beds in September 1915 grew by August 1916, when Frank was there, to 3800 beds. Soldiers, including Frank, spent 6 weeks here on a graduated programme of recovery, under military discipline, which built them back up to full fitness. After the 6 weeks he is discharged and marched into No 1 Command Depot at Perham Downs. He spent two and a half weeks there before returning to duty on 12th September 1916 with the 6th Training Battalion.
In mid-December Frank made it to France. He joined his Battalion on 17th December 1916. His time with the Battalion was short as only three and a half weeks later on 10th January 1917 he reported sick and was admitted to the ANZAC Casualty Clearing Station with a septic forefinger. By the 14th January when he is admitted to the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France the infection has spread to his forearm. The infection didn't improve and he was embarked for England on HMHS St Andrew on the 31st January and admitted to the Southwark Military Hospital, East Dulwich. Frank was finally discharged on 5th March. He reported to No 1 Command Depot at Perham Downs on 20th March, after 2 weeks furlough.
Frank was transferred to the 65th Battalion for 6 months returning to the 21st on 19th September 1917. On 4th December Frank proceeded overseas to France and rejoined his Battalion in the field. It is 9 months before there is another entry in Frank's file. On 1st September 1918 he is wounded in action and admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance with a severe gunshot wound to his thigh. The following day he was transferred to the 6th General Hospital at Rouen, France, then transferred to England on HMHS Carisbrooke Castle on the 5th September. Frank spent seven weeks at the Voluntary Aid Hospital, Cheltenham before being transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford for a few days. Two months after being wounded he was discharged to No 2 Command Depot at Weymouth. A month later, on 3rd December, he moved to No 1 Command depot at Sutton Veny to await his return to Australia. Frank departed England on 17th March 1919 on HMHS Plassy and arrived in Melbourne on 30th April 1919.

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Sister. Sylvia Daisy Brown 6th General Hospital Queen Alexandras Imperial Military Nursing Service
Sylvia Brown was a native of Yorkshire and trained to become a nurse at London Temperance Hospital. In 1912, she moved to New Zealand, where she continued her work as a nurse. On 14th of September 1915, at 31 years of age, she enlisted in England with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) as a Ward Sister and served with that unit until being demobilised on 7th of April 1919. During that period, she was posted to the 2nd Military Hospital at York and to the BEF's No. 6 General Hospital in France. For her war service, Sister Brown was awarded the British War Medal. Subsequently returning to New Zealand, she would go on to serve for many years as Matron of Nelson Hospital in the city of Nelson.
Much more information (including some photographs) about Sister Brown’s life and service is available at the Medals Reunited New Zealand website.

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Pte. Walter Alexander Ross 21st Battalion
Walter Ross had been taken down by a bout of laryngitis while his Battalion were behind the lines at Jesus Farm near the River Lys doing infantry training. He'd paraded sick on 20th of May 1916 but despite being taken off duties and sent for medical care, it had worsened into Bronchitis and he was sent to the No. 5 Convalescent Hospital. He was subsequently sent to a hospital in England, and remained in England before returning to France on 12th of November 1916.
Walter was subsequently wounded again on 20th of March 1917, being shot in the thigh while his unit was attempting a flanking movement on the town of Noreuil, and required hospitalization at the No. 6 General Hospital in Rouen. The injury wasn't too serious and he rejoined his unit again a few weeks later.
He joined the 21st Battalion as they assaulted the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt on 3rd of May 1917. Walter was in the 4th wave of troops who pushed forward against well entrenched machine guns, and a hail of High Explosive artillery shells. Walter was hit in the right shoulder by a machine gun bullet, fracturing his shoulder blade and lodging so deep that the doctors didn't dare remove it. He was one of 441 men from the 21st Battalion wounded that day, in addition to 67 killed and 60 missing. He was sent to England where he was assessed as having a permanent disability, and then returned to Australia on the hospital ship S.S. Borda, returning home to his wife Sarah and young son Vernon.
Greg Calvert

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Sgt. George Beresford Palfreyman 219th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.5th Jan 1918)
George Palfreyman, was born 19th September 1894 and was the son of George and Martha Palfreyman of Gorton. He died as a result of gas in January 1918 at the No 6 General Hospital, Rouen. According to the 1911 census he was an auxiliary postman.
C Giles

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