RAMC, Certificate of willingness to proceed on Active Service

[bts1970]

Hi

One of the lads i am researching has a slip of paper in his records that i have not come across before. Was this a standard RAMC procedure or is it maybe due to the mans religion (Quaker, pacifist etc)

anyway all very intresting & would love some opinions is possible

Arthur Wilfred Rushed RAMC

Enlisted: (Short Service) 12/10/1915, Swindon.

Age given: 31 years 6 months.

Occupation: Clerk

Address / Next Of Kin, family details: The Common, Purton. NOK listed as Maude Ellen Rushen (Wife, married 26/12/1907), lists one child, Leslie Arthur born 28/07/2920.

MIC details / Medal entitlement.

02740 Royal Army Medical Corps.

British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Extracts from: Service record.

14/10/1915 Woolwich.

31/12/1916 Declared a willingness to serve overseas.

29/05/1918 Qualified sanitary orderly.

01/02/1919 118 Sanitory section, Salonika. Papers show employment as a clerk carrying out Quartermasters, sanitation and anti-Malarial work.

27/03/1919 Demobilized.

Evidence for inclusion on the Purton Parish list: Name listed in the Memorial book in St Mary’s Church, National Archive details

(Service records), 1918 voters list for Purton Parish (a NM), Common.

Best regards

Bob

[bts1970]

Found no refrence to Religion but on his front sheet there is refrence to previous (TF) service and also a hand ammendment to show "HOME" service at (9).

[centurion]

I was under the impression that all the pre war TF had to agree to overseas service as their original signing on was for service in the UK only.

[bts1970]

Centurian

thanks for that, i was under a similar impression but had never actually seen such a signed slip agreeing to such a venture. Of 480 names being researched i have alot of TF lads with thier papers, none of the others have this in the files although nearly all went overseas. This threw up another of those need to confirm questions.

Thanks again

Bob