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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (78pp) of his service in the 97th Field Ambulance RAMC (89th Brigade, 30th Division) in France, November 1915 - February 1919, referring in detail to the duties and organisation of a Field Ambulance and providing an insight into the work of the 'dresser' and 'bearer', describing his crossing to France and posting to a quiet front around Bethencourt and Chippilly, and then his move to Mariecourt (June 1916) where he witnessed the preparations for the Battle of the Somme, the strain on the Field Ambulance after the opening of the offensive in which he served as a stretcher-bearer and dresser, his returned to the Somme front in November 1916 to run an Anti-Tetanus Serum Receiving Point at Becordel, working in an Advanced Dressing Station at Berles and then at Bavincourt behind the Arras front, then in charge of an aid post near Zillebeke Lake and Hill 60 (May 1917), and the taking of Kemmel Hill before his temporary transfer to the 149th Brigade RFA, rejoining the 97th Field Ambulance shortly after the Armistice and remaining with them until his demobilisation in February 1919.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bland, W R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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