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4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps    4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps was part of 2nd Division when war broke out in August 1914. 2nd Division was one of the first formations to proceed to France with the BEF in August 1914, they remained on the Western Front throughout the war. It took part in most of the major actions. In 1914 they were in action in The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, the Actions on the Aisne heights and First Battle of Ypres. They took part in the Winter Operations 1914-15 and saw action at The Battle of Festubert. 4th Field Ambulance RAMC transferred to the Guards Division on the 19th of August 1915. They were in action in The Battle of Loos. In 1916 they fought on The Somme in The Battle of Flers-Courcelette and The Battle of Morval, capturing Lesboeufs. In 1917 they were in action in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the Third Battle of Ypres and The Battle of Cambrai. In 1918 they fought on The Somme, during the Battles of the Hindenburg Line, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle and The Battle of the Sambre. At the Armistice they were near Maubeuge and were then ordered to the Rhine, crossing the German frontier on the 11th of December. the Guards Division began to return to England on the 20th of February 1919 and had all returned home by the 29th of April 1919. 30th Mar 1915 Poem 29th October 1917 Scheme "M" No.4 Brigade Operational Order No.1.   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps? There are:5232 items tagged 4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Page Reginald Howard. Cpl. White John Frederick. Pte. (d.31st July 1917) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 4th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. 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Reginald Howard Page 4th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps One of the Old Contemptibles, my grandfather, Reginald Page, joined up at the very beginning of the war. I suspect he had a yen for the RAMC because his father was a doctor who had fallen on hard times, and Reginald had never had any of the education he would have liked in order to become a medic himself. As it was, he was a private, I believe a stretcher-bearer, but had been promoted to Corporal by the time he was wounded at the end of October 1917, presumably at Paschendaele. The wound was recorded as gunshot to head, though family history has it as a shrapnel hit, and was severe, causing him to lose a small piece of skull. He was sent from Etaples to Calais on 1st of November 1917 and travelled home on a Convalescents for England transport. He was entitled to a wound stripe, and never returned to the war, I do not know whether he was honourably discharged or still convalescent when the war ended the following year. My grandmother Emily, his fiancee at the time, recalled the lengthy trips she had to take to get to the hospital where he was convalescing. However, he survived to marry her, have three sons (two of whom were old enough to fight in WW2) and to live happily till the early 1950s. He always had a pulsing place on his head where he had nearly been killed in 1917. Caroline Page Add to this record. 227082 Pte. John Frederick White 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.31st July 1917) My Uncle John White was born at 11 Woodlands Street, Kingston, Portsmouth. He was the eldest child of John Frederick White RN and Mary Ann White and brother to Grace Dye, my mother. John was better known as Jack to family and friends. He developed a passion for music and was talented in both piano and clarinet and took the later to war. He enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps on the 19th of August 1915 in the 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance with the regimental number 2375. The Territorial force was sent to France in November 1914, during the war it was renumbered as the 217th Field Ambulance RAMC. He was a Stretcher bearer After some weeks at the 1st Territorial base at Rouen he was posted to the 4th Field Ambulance, 8th division in France on 4th of October 1916. On the 10th December 1916 he was posted to the 26th Field Ambulance also in the 8th Division. His regimental number was changed to 461550 early in 1917 when all territorial force soldiers were allotted new numbers. Jack was killed in action at the battle of Pilckem. His mother, my grandmother, never forgot her son and remembered him every year up till her death in 1949 by placing a memorial in the Portsmouth Evening News. This is one of them. Short was your life my darling son, But peaceful be your rest. Your mother misses you most of all because she loved you best When all alone I sit and think I seem to hear you say, keep up your heart dear mother. we will meet again some day In all those dark days John experienced he made time to send many postcards and presents to his family. Wish I could tell him how proud the family are. Lynda Ibbotson Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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