Current Information:

Age-25

15, Springfield Wells, Sydenham

Gorre British & Indian Cemetery, France

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. 

John Birch was killed in on 28th December, 1914, while serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France but as yet there is no further information concerning his death. The 3rd Field Ambulance was part of 1st Division which, at the end of 1914, was holding the line near La Bassée.