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RAMC profile of:
Reginald Joseph WOOSTER
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
Chiswick, Middlesex on 7th October 1886

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Rank: Capt

Unit:

Attached To: 9th Bn. Rifle Brigade

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Also Served: Various - see below

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 15/09/1916
Age Died: 29

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: France - Thiepval Memorial, Somme

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Reginald was educated at St Paul’s School, London, and at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, where he qualified in 1911. He held various house appointments at St Mary’s Hospital, before volunteering for active service when war broke out. Reginald was gazetted temporary Lieutenant on 26th October 1914, then entered the war in France on 18th March 1915. He was promoted to temporary Captain after a year’s service. He first served with No 9 General Hospital at Rouen, then later transferred to the 43rd Field Ambulance. He then became the medical officer attached to the 9th Bn. The Rifle Brigade, and was killed during the Second Battle of the Somme. His Commanding Officer wrote to his family “He very gallantly went forward with the attack and I saw him busy dressing the wounded after crossing the first line of German trenches; after that he must have gone right forward, and I hear that he was working magnificently when he and his medical orderly were both killed instantly by a shell. I know you will have pride in the fact that he fell when working right out in the open, and well (nearly a mile) inside what had been German ground less-than an hour before. It is not every Medical Officer who volunteers to go right forward as he did.” Reginald was the fifth son of John Ratliff and Ellen (daughter of John and Martha Hill) Wooster of 3 Woodville Gardens, Ealing, London.


 
 
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