Current Information:

Age-21

4, Haven Green, Ealing

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France

James Pedrick died from unspecified causes on 17th February, 1917, while serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France but it is not known if he died from wounds or from illness, both of which took their toll of the men on the Western Front. 

The field ambulances provided by the Royal Army Medical Corps were mobile medical units whose function was to provide stretcher bearers to collect the wounded and to give emergency aid before sending them back to Casualty Clearing Stations and then Base Hospitals. Working close to the front line they were often victims themselves of enemy fire, especially the stretcher bearers. The 24th Field Ambulance was part of 8th Division which in February, 1915 werre holding the front line at Laventie.

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