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No. 3 Stationary Hospital

No. 3 Stationary Hospital proceeded to France and opened at Rouen in February 1915. In late March 1919 it moved to Rotterdam.

31st Jan 1915 Influenza

15th Feb 1916 Admissions

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Rees MID.. Mildred Gertrude. Staff Nurse.
Sherwood William Edward. Pte. (d.5th December 1917)
Springford Joseph. Pte. (d.15th February 1918)
Williams Henry Owen. Able Sea.
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Staff Nurse. Mildred Gertrude Rees MID. Queen Alexandras Imperial Military Nursing Service
Mildred Rees was born at Otekaieke Station, Waitaki Valley, NZ on 26 February 1869, she died at Nelson, NZ on 21 August 1957. She trained as a nurse at Wellington Hospital, NZ and traveled to England in 1910. She was there when WW1 broke out.
At the beginning of WW1, Mildred joined the Millicent Sutherland Ambulance, based at Namur in Belgium. German advances forced this group of eight nurses, one surgeon, and Millicent Sutherland to return to England after just six weeks. In 1915, she joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Service Reserve. The following lists her subsequent postings and activities:
Feb 1915 - Mar 1916: at 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 10 months; at 9th Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 2 months.
Mar - Apr 1916: Returned sick with influenza and recuperated at Queen Alexandra's Hospital, Millbank.
Apr 1916 - Jan 1917: 10th Stationary Hospital, St. Omer for 1 month; No. 4 Ambulance Flotilla (Barge No. 192) for 5 months; 25th Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 3 months.
Jan 1917: 14 days leave.
Mar - Sep 1917: 10th Stationary Hospital, Remy Siding for 2 months; Ambulance Flotilla (Barge No. 366) for 5 months.
Sep 1917 - Feb 1918: No. 23 Casualty Clearing Station for 4 months.
Feb 1918: 14 days leave, spent in Cannes.
Mar - Nov 1918: 4th General Hospital, Camiers for 9 months.
Next 4 months: No. 48 CCS, Namur, Belgium; No. 55 CCS, Charleroi, Belgium; No. 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux.
5 Apr 1919: Demobilised
Feb 1920: Returned to NZ

Ron

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Pte. William Edward Sherwood 19th (St Pancras) Battalion London Regiment (d.5th December 1917)
At the outbreak of the war in 1914, Bill Sherwood was a 36 year old wharf foreman living with his wife, Emily and their 2 children, Stanley aged 11 and Doris aged 8 in London's Limehouse. His life was turned upside down in 1915 as firstly his wife died in early in the year and then his mother died suddenly on Christmas Day at her home on Salmon Lane of a brain haemorrhage. The family had been ripped to shreds and with the introduction of government conscription the following year, Bill found himself having to leave his children behind.
Bill joined 19th Battalion, London Regiment on 11th of December 1916 and saw action at the Battle of Messines, the 3rd Battle of Ypres and at Cambrai, where on 29th November the unit took over the recently-captured Bourlon Wood just in time to be hit by a German counter-attack the following morning.
The 1/19th Londons were badly affected by the enemy bombardment, particularly by gas shells. Out of 15 officers and over 600 men of the battalion who took up position in the wood, only 5 officers and 65 other ranks remained in the line by the end of the day, and many of those were later evacuated to hospital suffering the effects of gas. Unfortunately, it appears that Bill was one of those men. He was transported to No. 3 Stationary Hospital in Rouen and he succumbed to his injuries on 5th December 1917. He was laid to rest at the St Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen
Paul Melton

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Pte. Joseph Springford 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (d.15th February 1918)
Joseph Springford served woith 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in 117th Brigade, 39th Division. Formerly he had served with The Cambridgeshire Regiment
Joseph was one of a large local family. He first registered for school at Eton Porny on the 21st October 1895 and left school in December 1902. In all probability he attended the infants' school in Eton Wick for two years before going to Eton. The family home in 1895 was recorded as 6, Bell Cottages, Alma Road, Boveney Newtown. Later the family moved to No. 4, Hope Cottages, Common Road, and some years later to 3, Victoria Place, a terraced house about eight doors along the same road from Hope Cottages.
By the beginning of 1918 there were six Springford brothers serving in the armed forces. Two were destined to die before the November armistice, although Albert and Harry who enlisted early in the war, returned safely.
It is not known when Joseph enlisted in the Army at Oxford, or what work he pursued before joining the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, also known as the Welbeck Rangers. It was 1st of June 1915 when the Battalion was raised by the Mayor and recruiting committee of Nottingham. It was not unusual, at this early stage of the Great War, for Battalions to be raised by local dignitaries, towns, cities and even sporting associations. In October 1915 the 17th went to Aldershot as part of 117th Brigade, 39th Division. The following month they moved to Witley, and on December 10th were taken over by the War Office.
On 6th of March 1916 the Battalion arrived in France. The Battle of the Somme started at 7.30 a.m. on July 1st 1916, but not until the end of August would the 17th Sherwood Foresters become involved. From the 24th August until the 28th they were being moved towards the front, and on September 2nd went into trenches near Beaumont Hamel. At 5.10 a.m. on the 3rd, 650 men and 20 officers of the Battalion advanced through No Man's Land and by 6 a.m. had taken the German front line. In attempting to advance further they met strong machine gun fire. At 1.50 p.m. they withdrew, having suffered many casualties. That evening they fell back to Mailly Maillet Wood having sustained 454 killed and wounded of the original 670. The Battalion's first day of action was a bitter experience.
Further Somme action followed at the Serre sector front line on 20th of September 1916, at Bertrancourt on 30th of September and at the Thiepval sector of the front line on 5th of October 1916. It was here that the enemy attacked using flamethrowers before being driven back. The 17th Battalion were again in on the front line at Thiepval River sector on the 16th October. Subsequent action involved more hard combat near Senlis and Martinsart Wood.
On 14th of November 1916, with Somme battles drawing to an inconclusive end, the Battalion was relieved and sent to Warloy, three days later they entrained at Candas for St Omer. In July 1917 the Battalion, still part of the 117th Brigade, 39th Division, were in the XVIII Corps of the Fifth Army and involved in the Battles of Pilkem Ridge (July 31st) and at Langemarck; the Merlin Road Ridge; Polygon Wood and Passchendaele (in the Third Ypres) between August and November of that year. At this time they were with X Corps, Second Army. The atrocious conditions of the Passchendaele offensive effectively ended in November when the German defence of the ridge was overcome.
Three months later The Windsor & Eton Express reported Springford, Joseph, Private 17th Sherwood Foresters died 15th of February 1918 at No. 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen aged 30.
On March 9th, 1918 the same paper reported: Springford, Joseph, Private Sherwood Foresters son of Mr. T Springford of 3, Victoria Place, Eton Wick, died of kidney disease on 15th of February 1918 while in No. 3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France.
Joseph was the first of two Springford fatalities. His younger brother Isaac died 4 months later as the result of severe gassing and was buried in Eton Wick. Joseph is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen and his grave is No 73, Row K, Plot 6, Block P. The cemetery extension is two miles south of Rouen Cathedral and records 8,356 burials with a further 3,083 in the main St. Sever Cemetery to which the Extension is part. All these burials are of the 1914-18 war. The Extension contains 6,600 U.K. soldiers, 783 Australian, 311 Canadian, 271 Indian, 134 New Zealand, 88 British West Indian, 84 South African, 11 Newfoundlanders, three from Guernsey, one Bermudan, six unknown, one Egyptian, 44 Chinese labour force, 18 Italian and one Portuguese. The large number of different nationalities is due to the fact that the cemetery was for men dying of wounds or sickness in the No. 3 Stationery Hospital.
Joseph is commemorated on the Eton Wick Memorial and on the Eton Church Gates.
This is an extract from Their Names Shall Be Carved in Stone and published on www.etonwickhistory.co.uk with grateful thanks to the author Frank Bond.
Steven Denham

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Able Sea. Henry Owen Williams Hawke Battalion
Harry Williams enlisted with the 5th Battalion RND at Crystal Palace on the 18th of May 1915. On the 23rd of September 1915 he joined the 7th Reserve Battalion at Blandford from Crystal Palace. On the 10th of May 1916 he transferred to 2nd Reserve Battalion and was loaned to the Anson Battalion, in 2nd Brigade, which he joined on the 28th of June 1916 until the 31st July 1916 when the joined 3rd Reserve Battalion.
On the 9th of October 1916 he was posted to to Hawke Battalion (1st Brigade) with the B.E.F. in France. On the 12th of April 1917. Admitted to 2nd Field Ambulance suffering from Influenza and the following day was admitted to No 1 Convalescent Depot, at Boulogne. On the 15th of April he was admitted to No 10 Convalescent Depot at Escault and then to 3rd Large Rest Camp, Marlboro at Boulogne. On the 22nd May 1917 Harry rejoined Hawke Battalion on the 22nd of May.
On the 4th of August Harry joined No 1 Divisional Train and two days later was severely wounded by a Gas Shell. He was admitted to No. 3 Stationary Hospital at Rouen on the 10th where after two days treatment he was invalided to England on board the S.S Kalyan. On the 13th of August he was admitted to the War Bradford Hospital.
By the 10th of October 1917 Harry had recovered and returned to France landing at Boulogne to rejoin his Brigade. On the 24th of May 1918 Harry was at Etaples at the Command Depot and was sent back to England where on the 25th of June 1918 he transferred to RN Depot at Chatham.
Alan Griffiths

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