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95th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps



   95th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps served with 31st Division. After initial training close to home, the units concentrated at South Camp, Ripon in April and May 1915. Training was difficult due to severe shortages of arms, ammunition and equipment. In September they moved to Fovant on Salisbury Plain for final training for service in France. Advance parties had already crossed the channel when the division was ordered to Egypt in December, accompanied by the artillery of 32nd Division in exchange for thier own Divisional artillery. They sailed for Egypt in December and took over No 3 Sector of the Suez Canal. They were recalled to France and sailed to Marseilles during the first week of March for service on the Western Front. Their first action being the attack on Serre in on the 1st of July during The Battle the Somme. They were also in action during The Battle of the Ancre and in 1917 the Operations on the Ancre before moving north to Arras for The Third Battle of the Scarpe and The Capture of Oppy Wood. In 1918 they saw action in The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The First Battle of Arras, they moved north to Flanders and took part in The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Defence of Nieppe Forest and The attack at La Becque during the Battles of the Lys. During the Advance in Flanders they were involved in The capture of Vieux Berquin, and The action of Tieghem. They crossed the River Scheldt on the 9th of November and at the Armistice the forward units had reached Everbecque and the River Dender. They moved back to the Arques-Blendecques area and demobilisation began.

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95th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Clayton Ernest A.. Sgt. (d.23rd April 1918)
  • Cunnington Edward Charles. Capt. (d.23rd March 1918)

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Sgt. Ernest A. Clayton 95th Field Ambulance (d.23rd April 1918)

Ernest Clayton was an Ambulance Driver with 95th Field Ambulance, RAMC. He is buried in Cabaret Rouge Cemetery and my mother visited his grave a couple of weeks before she died in 1994. As a youngster he had been a choir boy in York Minster and there is a plaque in the Minster commemorating the choir boys who were killed during the 1st World War.

I have a letter dated 19 October 1923 addressed to my grandmother Mrs Frances Clayton, 23 Clarence Street, York, from the Imperial War Graves Commission advising her that the grave of her husband Ernest Clayton is in Plot 8, Row R, Grave 10., in Caberet Rouge British Cemetery. I have just found an old photograph in the family Bible which depicts some members of the 94th Field Ambulance BEF with Lt.Col Stewart (O.C). Sgt.Mjr Campbell (RAMC) Sgt. Mjr Cobley (GSC) and the Sergeants of the 94th Field Ambulance division dated th ofAugust 1916.

Kathleen A Buttle




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Capt. Edward Charles Cunnington 95th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps (d.23rd March 1918)

Edward Cunnington was the only child of Captain Benjamin Cunnington of the Wiltshire Regiment and Maud Cunnington. He was educated at Reading, then Cambridge and was studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital at the outbreak of war.

He was granted a commission in July 1915 and joined 95th Field Ambulance, serving initially in England, then Egypt, moving to France in March 1916. Edward was killed in action on Sunday 23rd of March 1918 by a bomb exploded while he was tending wounded in a forward dressing station near to the front line.







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