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Description: | British medical orderly and stretcher bearer served with 15th Stationary Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps off Gallipoli, based on Aragon and Lemnos, 1915. Served with 80th General Hospital, 67th Field Ambulance and 23rd General Hospital in Salonika, Greece, 1918-1919. Founder of Gallipoli Association in GB, 1969
REEL 1 Recruitment underage into Royal Army Medical Corps at Rhyl Recruiting Office, and training at Aldershot, 10/1914-3/1915. Voyage with 15th Stationary Hospital, RAMC aboard City of Edinburgh to Mudros, Lemnos, Greece, 3/1915-4/1915: question of destination; topees; sentry duty; conditions; landing as part of advance party and period in camp at Alexandria, Egypt, 4/1915; running aground at Mudros. Voyage aboard Aragon to Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 24/4/1915-27/4/1915: role as hospital ship having landed troops at V and W Beaches; surrounding ships; nature of medical provision. Carrying wounded aboard Aragon via Alexandria to Malta, 4/1915-5/1915. Period with fever in camps in Alexandria, 5/1915. Return to find unit, landing in error at V Beach, temporary attachment to 11th Casualty Clearing Station, RAMC at W Beach prior to rejoining unit on Lemnos, 6/1915.
REEL 2 Aspects of period attached to 11th Casualty Clearing Station on W Beach, 6/1915: burial of corpses; digging dugout; morale and rumours; relationship with Turks. Aspects of period in camp with 15th Stationary Hospital at Lemnos, 6/1915-8/1915: looking after patients with typhoid; food and water rations; role of Zion Mule Corps. Move aboard Aragon to Imbros to collect wounded from Suvla operations, 8/1915. Question of adequacy of medical provision, 4/1915. Evacuation with dysentery to GB, 10/1915. Opinions of reasons for failure of Gallipoli campaign. Relationship with ANZAC troops in Alexandria, 4/1915. Role in foundation and organising activities of Gallipoli Association, 1969-1984: reasons; inaugural lunch; establishment of committee; role as chair and secretary; veteran membership.
REEL 3 Continues: associate membership; reunion functions; journal; duties; honorary members; visits to Gallipoli; funding; royal acknowledgement. Training as X Ray operator at Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, 1918-1918. Aspects of period as general duties orderly with 80th General Hospital, RAMC at Hortaic, Salonika, Greece, 3/1918-9/1918: journey out; visits to Salonika; situation; duties.
REEL 4 Recollections of period as stretcher bearer attached to 67th Field Ambulance, RAMC in Horseshoe Hill sector, Doiran area, 9/1918-10/1918: journey to front; story of collecting wounded near Jackson's Ravine and Christmas Ravine in No Mans Land opposite Grand Couronne, 17/9/1918; corpses on battlefield; situation; armistices. Period in camp, 11/1918-12/1918. Aspects of period as X Ray operator with 23rd General Hospital, RAMC at Salonika, 1919. Story of train journey back to GB, 1919. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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