Casualty Clearing Station Records WW1 1st Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers

[Corpsman]

Dear Forum,

I have been looking into my Great Grandfathers War service - he was 14308 Pvt James Molloy, initially 8th Bn and transferred to 1st Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers. I have managed to obtain his MIC and also his Effects Register Entry.

He managed to survive two years from Sept 15 to Sept 17 and I am of the opinion he must have been wounded during this time due to what I have read in the war diary.

I would appreciate if anyone could provide any other information to build up more of a picture of life in the trenches

Thanks - Corpsman

 

[Buzancy18]

Killed in Action 26th September 1917, born Tramore, Co Tyrone, resident Airdrie, enlisted Hamilton, entered France 20th September 1915.
122 killed in 1st RSF on this date.
Battle of Polygon Wood, 3rd Ypres, 8 Brigade, 3rd Division,  attacked at 5.30am with 2nd Royal Scots and 8th East Yorks with 1st RSF and 7th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry in support.With their right flank on the railway the first objective was taken although some of the East Yorks came across marshy ground and had to split up to go round it. At 7am the RSF and KSLI took over the attack and took the western slopes of Hill 40, just short of the objective. The enemy counter attacked and force the leading troops back but 12th East Yorks attacked and retook all the ground.

This action was about 1/2 mile south of ZEVENKOTE and approximately 1 mile east of FREZENBERG


If there are any records of CCS or Ambulance units they will be in the National Archives at Kew.

Buzancy18

[Corpsman]

 It would be good if someone knew the Ambulance units who were in support of 1st RSF over the period to narrow it down if I was to visit Kew

Thanks for the reply Buzancy 

[manmack]

hiya corpsman
the 8th field ambulance was the medical unit used by 8th brigade which included 1st RSF,the other two field ambulances with the 3rd division were 9th+142nd

mack

[Corpsman]

Thanks manmack, that narrows it down, cheers 

[Tyrannosaurus]

A search of The Scotsman newspaper for 14308 only finds one WW1 Molloy casualty, and that’s on 5 November, 1917.

Rex

[Corpsman]

That was him Rex

What I was hoping to find was the first aid station records to find out if he was wounded during his two years, if he was ever shipped home. I have seen some posts previously identifying when someone was wounded and then returned to action

I have never seen this clip before, thanks very much
Paul 

[Tyrannosaurus]

That’s okay Paul.

If he was wounded his name would have appeared on a casualty list. The Scotsman published the lists for all Scottish regiments. These included killed, wounded, missing, and all the other varieties. Optical Character Recognition is by no means perfect but you’ll see that numbers are quite clear compared to names and it’s likely that most would be recognised correctly.

Here’s the same list, much poorer quality, in Google’s Glasgow Herald. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6gw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=p0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2922%2C2946212

I forgot to mention that the address shown is that of next-of-kin.

Rex

[Scarletwoman]

A man's service record is the main way to find details of wounds and sickness - of course, the majority of those don't survive.  Almost all admission and discharge registers of military hospitals and casualty clearing stations were destroyed with just a small percentage retained as a representative sample from all theatres of war. I have those listed on my website here:

http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/125.html

All medical units that served overseas have war diaries at The National Archives but these are accounts of the day to day running of the unit.  They do not list admissions and discharges by name, although many do record the names and units of those who died.

Sue