98th Field Ambulance, RAMC

98th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps joined 30th Division in November 1915, as the division was concentrating near Amiens. In 1916 they were in action during the Battle of the Somme, in which the Division captured Montauban. In 1917 they took part in the pursuit of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the Arras Offensive and The Battle of Pilkem Ridge. In 1918 They were in action on The Somme and in the Battles of the Lys. The army reorganisation in February 1918 brought big changes to 30th Division, with many of the Pals battalions being replaced by Battalions from the London Regiment. They were in action during the Advance in Flanders and by the Armistice had crossed the River Scheldt with advanced units reaching the line between Ghoy and la Livarde, north west of Lessines. In January 1919 30th Division took up duty at the Base Ports of Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Etaples and demobilisation began.

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Pte. Charles McVea Buckner 98th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

McVea Buckner, an American eye-ear-nose and throat specialist, felt it his duty to volunteer to serve with the British Army in World War I. My grandmother, his young bride, traveled with him to Washington, DC, to send him off to war.
My grandmother never spoke of his war-time experiences except to say that my grandfather was horrified beyond measure at the immense suffering and extreme loss of young lives. My grandmother had a lovely voice and, as child, I would listen to her singing war-time songs that she must have sung to calm her own nerves, worrying whether her husband would return home. Charles McVea died in 1936, aged 49.
When my grandmother passed away, I found amongst her possessions a lovely Christmas greetings from the 98th (G.P.) Field Ambulance, dated 1917, Lt. Col. J.R.C. Greenlees, D.S.O. Commanding. The card is decorated by both motorized and horse-drawn ambulances, with a long poem ending: "So here's a Happy Christmas, and a peaceful year to follow. And a rollicking re-union, when the long, long trail shall end."
Dorothy Buckner Wessels Boer-Stallman

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