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Description: | Well-written ts account (33pp) recording his career as a Regular Officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), August 1914 - April 1915, including: active service as the Medical Officer to the 2nd Battalion KOYLI (13th Brigade, 5th Division), which mobilised in Dublin and travelled to France in August 1914, in the Battle of Mons followed by the rearguard action at Le Cateau and the British retreat, August - September 1914; the allied advance during the Battle of the Marne, September 1914; the Battle of the Aisne, September - October 1914; the move to Flanders and the Battles of La Bassee and Messines, October - November 1914; and as Transport Officer with the 15th Field Ambulance (15th Division), posted there as a rest from his battalion, during the First and Second Battles of Ypres and Hill 60, November 1914 - April 1915, when he was evacuated sick to the UK; and providing interesting comments on his duties; the evacuation and treatment of casualties; the traitorous activities of a French General who shot himself; the heavy casualties, leaving him as the only MO in the brigade and 1 of only 2 officers remaining from the battalion which left Dublin; his reaction to the loss of his friends; foraging for food; German atrocities and shelling; and life in the Ypres Salient. Also included are his ts report (3pp, October 1943) on his visit to Sweden to repatriate prisoners of war; his passport control (1p) on leaving Sweden; his British Passport (7pp, March 1939 - March 1947); a ts outline of his career (1p); 2 cyclostyled sports programmes for 14th Division and 42nd Field Ambulance (June 1917 and August 1918), and a photograph (1p, c.1916) of him in uniform.
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Catalogue date 1999-02-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 5th Division British Army King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 42nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps 15th Division 13th Brigade 15th Field Ambulance 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Helm, Cyril | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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