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No. 12 General Hospital
9th Jan 1915 Accomodation
10th Jan 1915 Accomodation
20th Jan 1915 Reinforcements
24th Jan 1915 Correspondence
18th Feb 1916 Contracts Renewed
22nd Feb 1916 Reinforcements
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Those known to have worked or been treated at
No. 12 General Hospital
during the Great War 1914-1918.
- Applebee Joseph Harold Alfred. Pte.
- Cross Terriss Norman. Sig.
- Halls Joseph Edwin. Pte.
- Rowen . Charles Victor. Pte. (d.21st Dec 1920)
- Williams Clive. Pte. (d.20th Nov 1918)
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Sig. Terriss Norman Cross D Battery, 155th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Terriss Cross enlisted on 11th of September 1916 at Woolwich. He served with 155 Brigade RFA in D Battery joining them on 30th September 1917 just before the Third Battle of Ypres (Second Battle of Passchendale). They moved into reserve east of Poperinghe on 22nd of November 1917 then some 75 miles south to Bapaume. They were heavily involved in the German Spring Offensive of March 1918. They fought in support of 38th Division on 18th of September in the area of Gouzeaucourt where Terriss Cross was gassed. He was taken to 30 Field Ambulance and then moved to No. 12 General Hospital at Rouen on 24th of September and then was moved to the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. He lived until March 1977.Peter Cross
Pte. Clive Williams 1/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.20th Nov 1918)
My family is fortunate not to have endured any casualties during either WWI or WWII. After many years attending the Cenotaph in London, I realised that I wanted to focus my remembrance on one particular service person. In November 2005 I undertook a search of the Commonwealth War Grave Commission website to see if a Clive Williams had died in either War.I found 57334, Private Clive Williams, 1/8 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, I now do all I can to research his life and keep his memory alive. I plan to visit his grave in France, but I would really like to find relatives, or perhaps even a photograph.
To the best of my research, Clive did not marry, and so, like many others of his generation, he died leaving nothing but his name. I am not sure if that is better than leaving behind a wife and family, but at least in one’s children, one can survive and live on. Clive, as far as I know, has no one to remember him.
It seems strange writing from my heart about a man I never knew, who had no connection with me other than sharing a name, and who had already been dead for over fifty years by the time I was born in 1972. I fear disturbing his spirit, when he laid down his life to rest in eternal peace, yet I feel driven to search out more and more information about this stranger. I am no relation to Private Clive Williams but I share his name and wish to keep his memory alive. I wish I could find a photograph.
Clive was born on the 18th of May 1894 at Langley, Worcestershire. His Grandfather was Levi Williams, who married Dinah Lewis, 10 June 1840 at St. Leonard’s Clement, they had a child, Levi Arthur. Levi senior married a second time to Jane Shaw on the 1st of September 1862 at St Thomas’s, Dudley. Clives parents were Levi Arthur Williams, (1854 - 1909), and Emma J Godfrey, who married in the September Quarter 1874 at Rowley Regis. Clive's sister was Henrietta Amplias Swain Williams, (1882 - ?), born in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. She married Dr Daniel McColl, in the September Quarter 1911, at Tamworth. He also had a brother, Arthur Swain Williams, (1892 - ?), born at Rowley Regis, Staffordshire.
Clive worked as a Colliery Labourer, at Pooley Hall Colliery and at Kingsbury Colliery Co. up until 1916. In 1894 he lived at Vicarage Road, Langley, Worcestershire, In 1901 then Census records him at ‘Myrtle Cottage’, Waterfall Lane, Rowley Regis, Warwickshire (now Staffordshire) and on the 1911 Census at 4 Watling Street, Wilnecote, Tamworth, Staffordshire. In 1918 his sister Amplias lived at ‘Holy Cottage’, Polesworth, Tamworth, Warwickshire (now Staffordshire)
Clive enlisted in 1916, Tamworth, Warwickshire and died on the 20/11/1918 at No. 12 General Hospital of wounds sustained in the Battle of the Sambre. He is buried in grave S.III.W.5, at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. His death was reportedin the Tamworth Herald on the 7/12/1918 & 14/12/1918 with a memorial message on 20/11/1919: "Make Firm O God The Peace For Which He Died". He is commemorated in the War Memorial, Holy Trinity Church, Wilnecote, Tamworth, Warwickshire (now Staffordshire), on the Tamworth & District War Memorial, Tamworth, Warwickshire (now Staffordshire) and Pooley Hall Memorial, Warwickshire.
Clive Stanley-Williams
Pte. Joseph Edwin Halls C Coy. 33rd Btn.
I was trying to research my grandfather who died at Arras in 1917 and I found his brother Joseph who was born in London, emigrated and then joined the Australian Imperial force in 1916.I am amazed that Joseph survived the WW1 as he had a shrapnel wound to the head, an infected foot and had been gassed twice. Possibly some dysentry as well as he did have symptoms. He was hospitalised a few times and was also hospitalised in England 1st Southern General Hospital Birmingham. and eventually was medically discharged as being unfit in 1919.
I wondered about this man, did he ever marry, he was single when he joined up and only his father and sister in England as next of kin. I wondered if there were any children. Surely a man who fought in this terrible war deserved companionship. Again I was amazed, further research showed that Joseph had joined the army again in 1930 and giving a false younger age. This time he had a wife as a next of kin and it appears they married in the same year as being discharged. That made me feel happy. I still don't know if there were any children though. It seemed he lived until 1950 and died at age 66.
Susan Horton
Pte. Charles Victor " " Rowen 1/22nd Battalion London Regiment (d.21st Dec 1920)
Charles Rowen was the brother of John George, Walter and James Edmund Rowen all of whom served in WW1Charles enlisted 24th Feb 1916 and was enrolled 2nd August 1916 in the 1/22nd Battalion London Regiment. On the 3rd Dec 1916 he embarked from Southampton and disembarked Le Havre on 4th December 1916
He was wounded in his left eye at Ypres 30th August 1917 and after treatment was discharged to Duty 8th Sept 1917. On 13th December 1917 Charles as gassed by shell and was admitted to 12th General Hospital in Rouen on 20th Dec 1917. Folllowing treatment he was sent to Base Medical Board on 1st Feb 1918 and to Comp B Depot (1311) 6th Feb 1918
On the 18th Feb 1918 Charles joined 50th P.O.W Labour Battalion for Duty at Les Sants. He was transferred to P. of War Company 15th July 1918, and retained his infantry pay for Benefit of Service and was allotted a new number, 564875. Charles went on leave from 22nd July to 9th August 1918 and on 25th August deducted one days pay due to being absent from 9.30 p.m to 7.15a.m. on 26th August 1918. He had leave in the UK 8th Feb 1919 to 22nd Feb 1919.
On the 5th April 1919 he was admitted to No 12 Stationary Hospital at Abbeyville and invalided home on the A.T Brighton due to Rheumatism. LCCO Posted 6th April. Between 6th April and 6th May 1919 he was treated at Nell Lane Military Hospital, in Didsbury then being transferred to the Lord Derby War Hospital in Didsbury for mental observations, he was there until 30th May 1919 when he was transferred to the County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, St Albans. Records state "Somewhat Dull in appearance when admitrted but cheerfuland rational. Hearing slightly impaired. Much improved. Recommended PU"
Charles was discharged from the Army on 3rd July 1919 due to Mental Instability due to Active Service. He died 21st Dec 1920 and is commemorated on the War Grave Panel in Streatham Cemetery.
David Bird
Pte. Joseph Harold Alfred Applebee 33rd Btn.
Harold Applebee was a 19 year old Labourer when he enlisted, he was described as being 5'8", having very dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes. He embarked from Australia in May 1916 and after training in England, proceeded to France in January 1917 where he transferred from 33rd Btn to the 9th Machine Gun Company. He saw action at the Battle of Messines and was wounded on the 18th of July, had a short spell in hospital and was again wounded, this time by gassing on the 31st. After a longer spell in hospital he rejoined his unit in September and suffered a 3rd Wound in action on the 2 October, he was invalided back to England with a severe wound which had fractured his skull and treated at the King George Hospital. By mid February 1918 he was fit enough to return to France and rejoined his unit on the front line. He had another spell in hospital in England, this time at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley in June 1918 suffering from Tonsillitis but again returned to France. He returned to Australia in 1919.
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