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RAMC profile of:
Malcolm Chalmers JACK
[Service No:  1825]
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
Peterhead, Aberdeen

Service Number: 1825

TF Number: 301279

Rank: Pte

Unit: 1st Highland Divisional Field Ambulance

Attached To: 2/1st Highland Field Ambulance

Enlistment Location: Aberdeen

Also Served: See below

Outcome: Died

Date Died: 06/06/1918
Age Died: 24

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: Etaples Military Cemetery - France

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Malcolm enlisted on 10th November 1914 and was embodied into the 1st Reserve Highland Field Ambulance, T.F. the same day. He was 19 years and 3 months old, and a Draper by trade. He became attached to the 2/1st Highland Field Ambulance and embarked at Southampton on 2nd June 1915, then disembarking at Havre the next day he entered the war in France on 3rd May 1915. Malcolm was wounded in action, with a gun shot wound to his right foot, on 23rd July 1916. He was evacuated down the chain to the South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, then by No 4 Ambulance Train to No 2 Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport. On 25th he boarded the hospital ship "Gloucester Castle" to England. On 17th June 1917 he retuned to France, embarking at Southampton he disembarked at Havre on route for Rouen. On 22nd June he joined Cyclists Base Depot and was posted to serve with No 93 Field Ambulance, in the field. On the 16th October 1917, Malcolm was gassed and was admitted into his unit before being transferred to No 42 Casualty Clearing Station and onto No 11 Stationary Hospital in Rouen. On 24th October 1917, he boarded the hospital ship "Grantullly Castle" to England. When he recovered, Malcolm was posted to "H" Coy in Blackpool. On 3rd March 1918 he embarked at Southampton as part of the 20th Egyptian Reinforcements - then disembarked at Cherbourg on the 7th. On 22nd March he embarked at Taranto, then disembarked at Alexandria on 27th. He then embarked again at Alexandria on 6th April on the Hospital Transport "Canberra" for Marseilles - disembarking on 17th April 1918. He re-joined the Cyclists Base Depot in Rouen and was posted back to 2/1st Highland Field Ambulance, in the field on 3rd May 1918. He was taken ill on 28th May and admitted into the 1/3rd Highland Field Ambulance, diagnosis was PUO. He was transferred to No 26 General Hospital on 30th May, where he died from Broncho-pneumonia. Malcolm was the son of John and Mary Jack of Dales House, nr. Peterhead, and the older brother of William James Jack who also served in the R.A.M.C. [Portrait photograph courtesy of David Jack]


 
 
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