Skipman Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 Does anyone have any information on this unit. I may just not be looking in the right place, but not finding anything on The Long Long Trail or the Forum search. Any links to any information appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 New on on me I think. An RAMC Company? Is it definetly WWI, not post or pre war? 20th Company, again not linking to RAMC units for me. Not CAMC or SAMC by chance? Context? TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 16 October , 2020 Thanks again for your interest TEW. Attached two screenshots. This soldier's service record survives. He went to france on the 4th of December, 1915, as did the man below him on the 1914/15 star medal roll. No service record exists for the other man but wondered if they would have served in same unit, seeing as they left same date and were next to each other on the roll. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 20th Coy were based at Tidworth, some suggestion that they were training establishments. here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 Correct. RAMC Companies were home-based units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 16 October , 2020 OK thanks again folks. So neither would have served with 20th Coy RAMC in France and could have served in any and different units. Back to the drawing board. I don't see any mention of any other unit on the service record of James Forrest McArthur 56340 RAMC. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corisande Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 There is his Pension Record as well - click - which you may not have seen due to the vagaries of the Ancestry indexing algorithm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 16 October , 2020 Many thanks corisande.II had not seen that. Not sure it would be relevant to my soldier anyway, event though they landed on same day. Struggling to read that but not sure if he served with 41 CCS or was admitted there with Albuminuria? Mike Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corisande Posted 16 October , 2020 Share Posted 16 October , 2020 To get Ancestry to give you the maximum number of records for a soldier for whom you have the Service Number, just search with only "Surname" and "service Number" nothing else. Their search algo is flawed and if you put in say his Christian name it will leave out some of the files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 16 October , 2020 21 minutes ago, corisande said: To get Ancestry to give you the maximum number of records for a soldier for whom you have the Service Number, just search with only "Surname" and "service Number" nothing else. Their search algo is flawed and if you put in say his Christian name it will leave out some of the files Yes I will search both from now on. I thought FMP was superior but they didn't come up with that. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 17 October , 2020 Share Posted 17 October , 2020 (edited) On mobilisation, 20 Company RAMC provided the personnel for 7th Field Ambulance and No.2 Stationary Hospital, both of which served in France and Belgium. Ron Edited 17 October , 2020 by Ron Clifton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 17 October , 2020 Author Share Posted 17 October , 2020 10 hours ago, Ron Clifton said: On mobilisation, 20 Company RAMC provided the personnel for 7th Field Ambulance and No.2 Stationary Hospital, both of which served in France and Belgium. Ron Many thanks indeed for this information Ron, that's extremely helpful. How do you know this? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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