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Sgt. Harty James Wells MID.
British Army 137th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Luton
Harty Wells volunteered in the summer of 1915. He was underage at 17 years old, and was enlisted into the 137th Field Ambulance, RAMC. He served with the 137th Field Ambulance throughout his service, being promoted up to Serjeant, it is believed at one point he was the youngest serjeant on the Western Front.
According to the National Roll of Honour, he was wounded at the Battle of Cambrai and based on the Unit War Diary was probably wounded on or about the same date as Captain James O'Shaughnessy Beveridge was killed in Action ot Died of Wounds 22nd of December 1917.
Serjeant Wells was demobilized on his return to England in August 1919. In the same year he received a Mentioned in Despatches. He died aged 50 in 1948.

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