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No.48 Casualty Clearing Station

No.48 Casualty Clearing Station opened at Grovetown in September 1916 and made a number of moves, ending the war at Charleroi. The wounded, having already had their wounds dressed at a Dressing Station would be brought to the tented hospital behind the lines, which also dealt with the sick referred to them by the Medical Officer of the man's battalion. The CCS was equipped with an operating theatre and tented wards. Those who needed further treatment would be transferred to one of the hospitals, though some were able to return to their unit after a stay at the CCS.

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Nutter William. Pte. (d.29th May 1918)
Rees MID.. Mildred Gertrude. Staff Nurse.
Stewart . Cecil . L/Cpl. (d. 1st May 1917)
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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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Staff Nurse. Mildred Gertrude Rees MID. Queen Alexandras Imperial Military Nursing Service
Mildred Rees was born at Otekaieke Station, Waitaki Valley, NZ on 26 February 1869, she died at Nelson, NZ on 21 August 1957. She trained as a nurse at Wellington Hospital, NZ and traveled to England in 1910. She was there when WW1 broke out.
At the beginning of WW1, Mildred joined the Millicent Sutherland Ambulance, based at Namur in Belgium. German advances forced this group of eight nurses, one surgeon, and Millicent Sutherland to return to England after just six weeks. In 1915, she joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Service Reserve. The following lists her subsequent postings and activities:
Feb 1915 - Mar 1916: at 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 10 months; at 9th Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 2 months.
Mar - Apr 1916: Returned sick with influenza and recuperated at Queen Alexandra's Hospital, Millbank.
Apr 1916 - Jan 1917: 10th Stationary Hospital, St. Omer for 1 month; No. 4 Ambulance Flotilla (Barge No. 192) for 5 months; 25th Stationary Hospital, Rouen for 3 months.
Jan 1917: 14 days leave.
Mar - Sep 1917: 10th Stationary Hospital, Remy Siding for 2 months; Ambulance Flotilla (Barge No. 366) for 5 months.
Sep 1917 - Feb 1918: No. 23 Casualty Clearing Station for 4 months.
Feb 1918: 14 days leave, spent in Cannes.
Mar - Nov 1918: 4th General Hospital, Camiers for 9 months.
Next 4 months: No. 48 CCS, Namur, Belgium; No. 55 CCS, Charleroi, Belgium; No. 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux.
5 Apr 1919: Demobilised
Feb 1920: Returned to NZ

Ron

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L/Cpl. Cecil " " Stewart 12th Btn. The Rifle Brigade (d. 1st May 1917)
My Grandfather Cecil Stewart died at the 48th Casualty Clearing Station at Bray sur Somme on the 1st May 1917 (a quiet period) He was 27 years old. The war diary notes that on the 27th April a platoon post was hit by a shell. 4 other ranks killed (all buried at Bellincourt where the action took place) and 5 other ranks injured.
The 12th Rifle Brigade were a service batallion recruited from around Stratford/West Ham/Stepney - East London. All those buried at Bellincourt are from these areas of London.
My mother (his only child) was three months old at the time. In peacetime he was painter and decorator - one of Haig's 'cannon fodder' who joined up in 1915. Prior to his death he survived actions at Ypres and the Somme
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