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1206204 Pte. William Nutter 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.29th May 1918) William Nutter died of wounds on 29th May 1918, aged 22. Buried in the Marfaux British Cemetery in France, he was the son of Mr. Robert & Mrs. Elizabeth Nutter, of 12, Daneshouse Rd., Burnley
William worked in the Tram shed at Burnley prior to enlisting. He was wounded in the hip on 27/05/1918 at a French Casualty Clearing Station by shrapnel and later taken to No.48 Casualty Clearing Station. The following day, according to a returned prisoner who contacted his parents after the war, "We were all taken prisoner and your son died on the 29th and was buried at a place called Montigny."
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256438 Pte. Edward Stephen Kennard 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Edward Kennard was awarded the above certificate for his actions during the Battle of Messines in 1917.
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250177 Richard Yates A Bty, 158th Howitzer Brigade Royal Field Artillery Richard Yates was in Laventie in March 1916. He was on the Somme, near Maricourt at Southern extremity of British line on the 19th of July 1916. Dick was in Arras in April and May 1917 but did not take part in the 3rd Battle of Ypres. He was attached to 1st Army Tunnelling School from 31st of January 1918 to 19th of February 1918 (he was a collier so it fits but didn't last long).
He was gassed during the Georgette Offensive on the Lys in Spring 1918,
on 11th of April 1918 he was admitted to No.11 Stationary Hospital in Rouen, then transferred by hospital ship to the UK and was in hospital at West Didsbury and Ripon. He went back to the Front for the last 100 days.
He suffered a Gun Shot Wound to his back and leg on the 18th of October 1918 and was sent to hospital via 76th Field Ambulance then went back to duty.
He was severely reprimanded, twice for going absent without leave.
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240518 Pte. George Jefferson 76th Field Ambulance, B Sec. Royal Army Medical Corps Our father George Jefferson enlisted in the Army when war broke out in 1914. He joined the Medical Corp and served as a stretcher bearer with B Section, 76th Field Ambulance on the Somme.
Although he did talk to our husbands of those war years, he spoke very little to his 2 daughters. I do remember a couple of stories Dad did relate to us girls. One where he was billeted in a farmhouse. He awoke one night and could hear this enormous rustling noise. He jumped out of bed and lit an oil lamp. To his horror, one whole wall of the room was covered in cockroaches. He didn't get any more sleep that night.
The other story he told us was of arriving back from the front for R and R. The men were told to strip off all their clothes and leave them in a pile. Jump into the nearby swimming pool. Swim the length of the pool. Get out the other end and put on clean uniforms and underwear. He reckoned it didn't do much good though. Within days the troops were all flea-ridden again. They used to sit on their bunks at night running a lit candle up and down the seams on their uniforms, cracking lice eggs and killing them.
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215502 Pte. George Augustine Drummond 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps. (d.6th Oct 1918) George Augustine Drummond died aged 25. He was born at St. Giles Midlothian, the son of of John and Maggie Drummond of 60 Cobden Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census, George Augustine Drummond age 18, Brass Tube Makers Labourer, is listed as living with his parents John and Maggie Drummond and family at 60 Cobden Street, Jarrow.
He enlisted at Leith.
George is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy.
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