Other Information:William entered the war in France on 24th May 1915. He is listed on a Nominal Roll for the 44th Field Ambulance, dated 19th December 1915. He was killed when the unit was in retreat and proceeding along the same roads as the as the' Old Contemptible' 2nd Corps took in the retreat from Mons in August 1914. They had nearly reached Noyon and were congratulating themselves that they were almost outside the maelstrom, when a German airman dropped a bomb right in the middle of them as they halted by the roadside. The bomb fell on the hard road, killing eight men - a French interpreter, Three A.S.C. and four R.A.M.C. The other R.A.M.C. were Q.M.S. Cattrall, S.Sgt. Hegarty, and Sandy Gordon. (Taken from the book ‘With the Forty Fourths’)
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