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58th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps    58th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps served with 19th (Western) Division. The Division was formed in September 1914, as part of Kitchener's Second New Army. The new units concentrated in the Bulford area with the infantry being based at Tidworth, Ludgershall and Grately. The battalions spent the winter in billets in Andover, Whitchurch, Basingstoke and Weston-super-Mare, returning to the area around Tidworth on the 15th of March 1915. They proceeded to France in mid July and concentrated near St Omer. Their first action was at Pietre, in a diversionary action supporting the Battle of Loos. In 1916 They were in action during the Battle of the Somme, capturing La Boisselle and being involved in The attacks on High Wood, The Battles of Pozieres Ridge, the Ancre Heights and the Ancre. In 1917 they were in action in The Battle of Messines and the Third Battles of Ypres. In 1918 They fought on The Somme during The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of Bapaume and in the Battles of the Lys at Messines, Bailleul and The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge. They fought in The Battle of the Aisne and during the Final Advance in Picardly they were in action in The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre and the passage of the Grand Honelle. At the Armitice were were in billets near Bavay. Demobilisation began in December 1918 and the final cadres returned to England on the 27th of June 1919. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 1205748 Pte. Samuel Jobling DCM. att. 58th Field Ambulance Royal Army Service Corps Samuel Jobling DCM served with the RASC (MT) attached to 58th Field Ambulance during WW1 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal whilst serving with the 19th Division. He was a Motor Ambulance Driver with 3 blue chevrons and noted with one wound stripe. He had enlisted at Burnley on 17th July 1915. He was discharged as being no longer fit for military service on the 18th December 1918. Born in 1892, he was a native of Burnley, Lancashire. The citation for the D.C.M. published in the London Gazette reads: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack. For six days he drove his ambulance between the regimental aid posts and advanced dressing stations under heavy shell fire with almost no rest. On one occasion he made fourteen consecutive trips on a road under heavy fire. He undoubtedly saved many lives, and only ceased work when he himself was badly wounded. Nick Jobling Add to this record. 248505 Pte. William Thomas Taylor 58th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps My maternal grandfather, William Taylor, was born in Railway Cottages in Dublin in April 1889. He had two brothers, Arthur and Jack, who also served in the First World War. His father was a train driver and his parents both died some time before 1914. William, Arthur and Jack, as orphans, were sent to live with relatives in Liverpool, though one may have entered a children's home in Croxteth. William had an uncle called Captain W. Gallant whom he wrote postcards to during the war. He lived at Primrose Cottage in Croxteth which is no longer there. William volunteered in 1914 training at Aldershot and going to France in 1915. He suffered a slight gas attack at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 serving as a stretcher bearer. He was put on lighter duties and served on Ambulance Train No 10. He once saw his brother on a train going in the opposite direction. In June 1918, William was wounded with a gunshot wound to his ankle somewhere between Reims and Epernay. As boys, my brother and I found a small cardboard pill box with ribbon and the pieces of shrapnel inside that were taken from William's ankle. He was taken to a French field hospital, strapped down and the shrapnel taken out of his ankle without anesthetic. William recovered at Mere, Wiltshire in a VAD hospital. Paul Eddy Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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