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First Name: | Clement Baker | Last Name: | SHERYER |
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Date of Death: | 31/10/1914 | Lived/Born In: | Stamford Hill | |
Rank: | Driver | Unit: | Royal Army Service Corps attached 8th Field Ambulance | |
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Current Information:Age-28 Born-Beckenham Enlisted-Stratford Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France
Clement Sheryer died from unspecified causes on 31st October, 1914, while serving with the 8th Field Ambulance in 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. |
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