No. 3 Canadian Casualty, Clearing Station in the Great War

No. 3 Canadian Casualty, Clearing Station

21st Jun 1916 Sacraments

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Crowle Stanley Howard. Rflm. (d.22nd April 1917)
Hughes William Owen. Pte. (d.2nd October 1917)
Sweet Richard Bartholomew. Gnr (d.8th October 1918)
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Gnr Richard Bartholomew Sweet "A" Bty. 210th Bde Royal Field Artillery (d.8th October 1918)
My great uncle, Richard, was a volunteer, enlisting into 3rd South Midland Brigade of the RFA (part of the Territorial Force) at the age of 17 in May 1914.
He embarked for France on 22nd May 1916 and underwent specialist training, eventually being attached to V61 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery. He endured a prolonged period recovering from Trench Fever between September 1917 and June 1918, after which he joined the 210 (Territorial) Brigade RFA under the command of the 42nd East Lancashire Division.
We believe that Richard was mortally wounded near Vaucelles and was evacuated to the 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station near Ytres, where he died on 8th October 1918. He is buried in the Rocquigny-Eqauncourt Road Cemetery. The chaplain who was with him in his final hours wrote to Richard's parents and we have since discovered that the Rev John Oswald Murray reported for duty at 3rd CCCS for the first time on that fateful day. In addition to his last resting place in France, Richard is commemorated at six locations to our knowledge:
St Mary's Church, Bearwood Memorial Cross (where he lived)
Tewkesbury Abbey Memorial (the Sweet family home)
Tewkesbury Cross War Memorial
Tewkesbury Cemetery - a family memorial
Birmingham Hall of Memory
The 'lost' Birmingham Corporation Gas Department memorial currently in the care of Birmingham Museum Collection Centre undergoing restoration
Kevin R Gibson

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Pte. William Owen Hughes 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.2nd October 1917)
William Hughes, aged 26 years and 5 months, was enlisted into the 1/6th (Territorial) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Caernarfon on the 16th of October 1914.
On the 3rd of July 1915 William was diagnosed as suffering with appendicitis and admitted into the Divisional Reception Hospital in Bedford, seven days later he was transferred to the 1st Southern General Hospital in the Selly Oak suburb of Birmingham.
On the 19th of July 1915, whilst William was still convalescing from his operation, the 1/6th Battalion became part of the 158th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division and sailed from Devonport for Gallipoli without him. Following his discharge from hospital on the 2nd of September 1915, William was transferred to the 2/6th (Territorial) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who had moved from Northampton to Bedford in July 1915.
At some point in 1916 William was then posted from Bedford to an Agricultural Company based at the RWF Depot in Wrexham (possibly to help with the harvest); during this time his Regimental service number was changed from 2395 to 265802. William remained at the RWF Depot for the rest of 1916 until warned early in 1917 that he was to be posted once again.
On the 1st May 1917 William embarked for France to join the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (part of the 7th Division). On the 30th September the Battalion relieved the 56th Australian Infantry Battalion, who occupied Jetty Trench to the east of the northern part of Polygon Wood.
At 5.15am on the morning of the 1st October 1917, the Germans launched a counter attack consisting of 3 Battalions and 3 Sturm-truppe of the 46th Reserve Battalion. The attack fell on the area of Polygon Wood covered by the 1st Battalion RWF and the 8th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment. The Regimental diary of the 1st Battalion RWF states that a message had been received from B Company, reporting that by 7.20am all was clear apart from heavy sniping. Sadly, it was probably during this action that William was shot, the round entered his back and penetrated through his chest. This may have occurred as elements of the RWF advanced forward to finish off the attack, only to have isolated pockets of the enemy pop from shell holes and snipe at them from behind. William would have first been taken to a field dressing station just behind the front line where morphine would have been administered and his wound dressed, from there he was evacuated to No. 3 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station at Poperinge where he finally succumbed to his wounds on the 2nd of October 1917.
There was some confusion following his death regarding his identity, the telegram that the War Office received from No. 3 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station informing them of his death, gave his Regimental Number as 68366. This highlighted the fact that a mistake had been made during Williams's time at the RWF Depot in Wrexham in 1916. This mistake had been noticed quickly at the time and he was then allocated his correct number of 265802.
William Owen Hughes obituary was published in the November 1917 issue of the Llandudno and District Advertiser, :The deceased was the first of the Llanrhos young men to join up, and is, we understand, the first to fall". There was a poem quite possibly written by one of the family also in the article: "We do not know what pains he bore; we did not see him die, all we know is that he has gone, and never said good-bye".
Tegid Hughes

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Rflm. Stanley Howard Crowle 1st/8th (P.O. Rifles) Btn. 3 Coy. London Regiment (d.22nd April 1917)
Stanley Crowle was one of my paternal grandfather's brothers and my late father was named after him. From what I can remember my grandfather loved his elder brother dearly but his war service and death were seldom mentioned apart from the fact that he was buried in a war cemetery somewhere in France or Belgium. A few years ago and due mainly to records being computerised, I was able to find out more about this young man, a distant relative, and via the internet have been able to see a photo of his grave. Stanley died of gunshot wounds to his abdomen and left arm, in no.3 Canadian CCS (Aveluy) at the age of 21. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
Jane Booth

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