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Pte John Cummins

Royal Army Medical Corps. 73rd Field Ambulance

from:62 Shakespeare Ave., Southampton

(d.9th Oct 1918)

On 6th October 1918 the 73rd Field Ambulance unit was at Havrincourt in bivouacs, South of Flesquires. Pte Jack Cummins a stretcher bearer was tasked with going out Sweeping for wounded. On 8th October at Noyelles, (South of Font. N. Dame) HQ-L 11c central was opposite church-industrial estate, in heavy shelling 5 men were wounded. 9th October infantry attacked at 0530.

John Cummins Pte died aged 25 on 9th October of wounds. He lies in Anneux British Cemetery. He was my Uncle Jack, a country boy from Shedfield in Hampshire who died of wounds sustained on the battlefield whilst saving others.



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