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14th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps 27th of September 1939 Kings Visit 27th of September 1939 Kings visit If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with 14th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War 1939-1945. Buchanan John. L/Cpl. Crawford William. Pte. Mathew Lancelot Jude. Pte. Murphy Gerard. Pte Murphy Gerard. Pte. Smith Leslie Arthur. Pte. Wells Dave. Pte. Wells Sidney David. Pte. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 14th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 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Gerard Murphy 14th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Gerard Murphy, my father, served in the British Army from 5th March 1940 until 20th March 1946. During this period, he served in North Africa and Italy. Sadly, he passed away in 1963 when I was boy, and I am sorry that I did not know him better. I have letters that he wrote speaking about sailing via South Africa to North Africa, and I have photos of him on ice skates with his mates in Northern, Italy. As I recall and from all that who spoke of him, he was a decent guy. My mother said he never spoke much about his experiences, only that he couldn't help everyone and that he did his best. It is noted that he was a nursing orderly class 3 & 2, and also a hospital cook class 3. Paul Murphy Add to this record. Pte. Dave Wells 14th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Dave Wells served with 14th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Norman Frank Wells Add to this record. Pte Gerard Murphy 14 UK Field Ambulance Gerard Murphy was my father and served in the 14th UK Field Ambulance of the Royal Army Medical Corp. His Grade Card Stamped Workington Medical Board registration CKT 207 has him place in Grade 1 and date stamped 31st jan 1940. I have movement orders and health certificates signed by Major James H Bennett in March 1946 with a release date noted as Aldershot 19th Mar 1946 I understand that my father served in North Africa and Italy and I see documents referring to moving to Milan from Verona around the 1st March 1946. Paul G Murphy Add to this record. Pte. Sidney David Wells 14th Light Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Dave Wells was my father. He served throughout the war as an orderly with 14th Light Field Ambulance RAMC. He was sent to France with the B.E.F. At Dunkirk they drew lots which let him try to get back to England. He was lifted off the mole by an almost new Destroyer with only one set of rear guns and two sets of torpedo tubes believed to be HMS Harvester. The unit was then sent to North Africa, Syria(attached to Australians), back to north Africa. For a time he was an orderly in an American Field Service ambulance. These were volunteer American drivers and dodge ambulances supplied by the American Red Cross. After North Africa he was in Italy before returning to the UK for the Normandy landings. From then on to Belgium, Holland and Germany. He did not often talk of his experiences. Once he said that after large tank battle the M.O. was with them and if the casualty was beyond help they would be given an excess of morphine. He was also at Bergen-Belsen a few days after it was liberated and said if you were not there in person you would not be able to take it all in. All the years I knew him he never used the word ambulance it was always a Blood Wagon. After the war he worked at Betteshanger Colliery in Kent as a male nurse Norman Wells Add to this record. L/Cpl. John Buchanan 14th Light Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Only last year, a letter was found in a house in Northern Ireland addressed to my Grandfather. The letter was from his Father, John Buchanan who had sent it from the 14th Light Field Ambulance in Egypt in 1943. This letter was kept by an Aunt who kept it from my Grandfather and his siblings (for reasons unknown). My Grandfather and siblings became very emotional at reading the letter from their Father who has passed decades ago. Gareth Morkel Add to this record. Pte. William Crawford 14th Light Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps To Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of VE Day, and honor those that fell. I thought I would share this with you, about a certain 13 men. This is photo of my Grandad, William Crawford's war diary written in 1942 as they where retreating from the Germans in the North Africa Campaign being pushed East towards the Suez Canal near El Alamein. He was part of the 7th Armoured Division the 'Desert Rats'. Black Friday 29th May 1942: 'We are still on the move, buried Jerry prisoner. 4.30pm Dived bombed and machine gunned by Stukhas, 13 of our lads killed, 10 wounded, burying the bodies, stayed behind with MDS (medical dressing station) Surrender to Jerry if necessary, 3.30am buried Private Thomas, can't evacuate wounded, going to be surrounded' Saturday 30th: '6.30 Trying to make our way out, carrying wounded, arrived on coast above Tobruk, lost 2 ambulances, 2 lorries, got first nights sleep for 4 nights, battle still raging'. Sunday 31st: 'Had parade to lay and find particulars of missing and killed. 3.30 went to sea for bathing not been able to wash for days. 8.30 Had memorial service. The names of the 13, are listed on the 2nd photo of the diary entry. Killed: Pte. Masefield Pte. Rodd Pte. Hunt Pte. Cook Pte. Thomas Pte. Haveridge Pte. Lyons Pte. Stringer Drv. Payne Drv. Taylor & others Wounded: Cpl. Byers Cpl Hughes Cpl Easton Pte. Hughes Pte Cornell Pte ??? Pte. Heneby Pte. Morris Sgt. Harnom & others RIP. Neil Crawford Add to this record. Pte. Lancelot Jude Mathew 14th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps My Father was born in Calcutta India 1920. Lancelot Jude Mathew He joined the British Indian Army in 1939. I do not have much information about his service. I have a photo of my father in a Group it has writing on the back - 28.3.1944 Italy 1944. Taken a few days before I get Posted from unit No 12 India Ambulance and Complete staff of Indian & British Personell (in workshop at B___ for Repairs.) Group Photo is in my possession. Dated He was also in Cortina, Italy at the end of the war. I believe he went to Burma but I don't have anything to support that belief. At the end of the war 1945 He was associated with 14th Field Ambulance and is photographed in Austria with other personel I have his discharge papers that were stamped in Aldersot UK 1946 showing his Service Number. Rhonda Mathew Add to this record. Pte. Leslie Arthur Smith Royal Army Service Corps My father Leslie Smith was a driver in the RASC. I understand he drove ammunition trucks, but also was put into the RAMC as a Ambulance driver, with the 14th Field Ambulance. I know he was in Africa, Sicily & Italy, he would never talk about the war, and I would like to know more of what happened during his time out there. I am his last surviving daughter, and I am coming up for 80 yrs, so if there is anyone who can give me any information or even photos, I would be more than grateful. Thank you in anticipation Lilian Knightley Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Links

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