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62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps    62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps served with 20th (Light) Division. The Division was established in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army. After training close to home with little equipment, the units of the Division assembled in the Aldershot area with brigades at Blackdown, Deepcut and Cowshott. In February 1915. The Division moved to Witley, Godalming and Guildford, with the artillery moving by train as there not enough harnesses for the horses, though they had just been equipped with 12 old guns brought back from India. The Division moved to to Salisbury Plain in April for final training and proceeded to France in late July, concentrating in the Saint-Omer area. They moved to the Fleurbaix area for trench familiarisation. In 1916 they were in action at the The Battle of Mount Sorrel, in which the Division, along with the Canadians, recaptured the heights. They were in action on the Somme in The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Guillemont, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval and The Battle of Le Transloy. In 1917 they were in action during The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of Langemarck, The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, The Battle of Polygon Wood and The Cambrai Operations. In 1918 they fought in The Battle of St Quentin, The actions at the Somme crossings and The Battle of Rosieres engaging in heavy fighting in each battle, on the 20th of April they were withdrawn to the area south west of Amiens and received many new drafts of men during the summer. They returned to action at The Battle of the Selle and fought in The Battle of Valenciennes, The Battle of the Sambr and the passage of the Grand Honelle. At the Armitice the Division was in the area between Bavay and Maubeuge and later that month the units moved to the Toutencourt-Marieux area. Demobilistion of the Division began in January 1919 and was complete by the end of May. Jul 1915 Training Instruction Jul 1915 Billets 20th Jul 1915 On the Move   22nd Jul 1915 On the Move   23rd Jul 1915 On the Move   26th Jul 1915 Orders Issued   3rd Sep 1916 Wounded Treated  On the 3rd of September 1916, the 62nd Field Ambulance RAMC was involved in the Battle of Guillemont retrieving and treating wounded soldiers from the battlefield very close to where the enemy were firing an incessant hail of bullets and shells. This was during the decisive Allied attack on the German-held strong hold of Guillemont. 62nd Field Ambulance were operating under the command of British 20th (Light) Division which operated in unison with the 47 Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division and together other forces they succeeded in capturing Guillemont on that day. 62nd Field Ambulance had been involved in this battle for many months prior the victory on 3rd September, operating in the so-called 'Valley of Death' which the Germans sprayed with machine-gun fire, bombs and gas-shells from their vantage point with great loss of life to Allied forces. 1st Jan 1917 Reliefs   4th Jan 1917 Relief   8th Jan 1917 Adjustment   23rd Jan 1917 Orders Received   25th Jan 1917 Relief Completed   25th Jan 1917 Boundary   26th Jan 1917 Orders   27th Jan 1917 Attack Made   28th Jan 1917 Reliefs Complete   29th Jan 1917 In Reserve 1st Feb 1917 Training 2nd Feb 1917 Training 3rd Feb 1917 Training 4th Feb 1917 Training 5th Feb 1917 Training 6th Feb 1917 Training 7th Feb 1917 In Reserve 8th Feb 1917 Moves 9th Feb 1917 Reliefs   19th Feb 1917 Post Captured   1st Mar 1917 Explosions and Fires   3rd Mar 1917 Reorganisation   4th Mar 1917 Reorganisation   5th Mar 1917 Instructions   7th Mar 1917 Reorganisation   8th Mar 1917 Outposts   10th Mar 1917 Orders   11th Mar 1917 Defence Scheme   13th Mar 1917 Instructions   14th Mar 1917 Orders   15th Mar 1917 Evacuation   16th Mar 1917 Quiet   17th Mar 1917 Withdrawal   18th Mar 1917 Withdrawal   19th Mar 1917 Outposts   19th Mar 1917 Orders Received   20th Mar 1917 Orders 20th Mar 1917 Orders   21st Mar 1917 Line Occupied 22nd Mar 1917 Reliefs 23rd Mar 1917 Reliefs 24th Mar 1917 Patrol 25th Mar 1917 Reorganisation   26th Mar 1917 Ground Gained   27th Mar 1917 Measles   27th Mar 1917 Advance   28th Mar 1917 Attack   29th Mar 1917 Advance   30th Mar 1917 Advance   31st Mar 1917 Orders   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps? There are:5287 items tagged 62nd 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 62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Davis James. L/Cpl. (d.26th August 1916) Jackson Edward. Gnr. (d.19th Dec 1915) Pridham MC.. John Alexander. Capt. 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 62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps from other sources. 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If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 219353 Gnr. Edward Jackson 92nd Bde. D Bty. Royal Field Artillery (d.19th Dec 1915) Edward Jackson died of wounds on the 19th of December 1915, aged 20. He is bBuried in the Estaires Communal Cemetery, France. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jackson, of Bradford. He lived at Upper Woodlands Road, Manningham, Bradford and worked as a French polisher. He was 5’ 7” inches tall, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. On August 28th 1914 at the age of 19 years and 66 days Edward Jackson joined the Royal Field Artillery, "D" Bty. 92nd Bde. He was posted to France and on December 19th 1915 was wounded. He was taken to the 62nd Field Ambulance in Bethune but died later that day of his injuries at the age of 20. His brother died 10 months later, also in France. s flynn Add to this record. 216996 Capt. John Alexander Pridham MC. 62nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps My Grandfather Capt John A Pridham served in WW1 at the Battle of Guillemont with 62nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. On Sunday 3rd September 1916 he was wounded and lost his left eye. This is a transcription of entries that he made in his diary on that day and over the subsequent three days:- “...Great rush of wounded began 10 am. 11am intense bombardment. Noon attack on Guillemont started. Tremendous rush of wounded 11 onwards all rest of day. Hardly able to cope with it. Attack successful. Many German prisoners. 2 M.O.s of the Connaughts & Munsters wounded. Hun started shelling neighbourhood about 5 pm. Got very close to dug out. Tried to get wounded about 6 .... of dug out. Whizzbang*. On doorstep** (wounded in left eye & forearm. Not seriously.) Dressed by Capt. Hickey. Rather painful. Osborne came in 9. Went away on stretcher 10.30 to .... ..... Montauban. ...... by S. Bs of Middlesex. Milne came with me. Then .... H. BMB, to other side of Montauban. Then ..... motor work. To Carnoy. AU 2 am.” [*Soldiers heard the typical "whizz" noise of a travelling shell before the "bang" issued by the gun itself. Whizz bangs were consequently much feared since the net result was that defending infantrymen were given virtually no warning of incoming high-velocity artillery fire as they were from enemy howitzers. The whizzbang presumably hit the doorstep** of the dugout which he was approaching to treat wounded men within. A dugout was a shelter dug into the side of a trench offering various degrees of protection, and were extremely vulnerable to shells fired directly into the trench.] After he was wounded he was taken to Montaubon-de-Picardie, and thence to Carnoy. On Monday 4th September 1916 he left Carnoy for the main DR (Dressing Station) on the Bray-Corbie Rd. His left eye was excised at a hospital in Corbie:- “Saw Jepson at Carnoy. Left soon after by car for Main D.S. on Bray-Corbie road. AU 6 am. Wounds dressed. Learnt that left eye was gone. Went off almost at once to No 5C.C.S. Corbie . .... 8 am. Put to bed. Had a wash. Clothes removed. Taken to theatre 11. Under chloroform. Left eye excised ..........Woke up again about 3. A ..... ten 4.30 Taken out of bed & put on a stretcher 7.30 ..... stayed there ... 45 min(?) On Tuesday 5th September 1916 he went by train to Amiens and thence to Abbeville (above and to the left of Amiens on the map), and continued westwards to Le Tréport on the coast. He was then taken by car to an hotel:- “Taken in ...... and 5 am Said good bye to Milne. Put in ..... train 6am. Had some broth in train. .... read paper & slept. Arrived Le Tréport about 1 pm. Vie Amiens to Abbeville. Taken by car to hotel. Dressed & washed at 5. Some dinner roast chicken etc. went to sleep at 9.” On Wednesday 6th September 1916 he had his wounds dressed – presumably at the local hospital in Le Tréport:- “Woke several times in night. Very hot. Breakfast, porridge & eggs 8.30 Washed in bed 10. wounds dressed 11. Lunch chicken etc. Wired Maggie & Mother. Tea 4. Washed again. Wounds dressed. Dinner. Soup, Fish, fruit pudding & fruit. Wrote Maggie and Mother. 7 in morning. Slept well most of night. 9.30 – 5.30.” Richard Crowe Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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