WWI Casualty Clearing Stations

My great uncle Alexander George Mavor was wounded at "The Bluff" at Ypres, Belguim in the First World War. He was in the trenches and hit in the stomach with a bullet that ricocheted off a periscope. He was taken to the No 17 Casualty Clearing Station where he died the following day.  That is all I knew from his military records.

From research I found out two things: 

 - that No 17 Casualty Clearing Station is not a place, it is one of a number of medical units set up at different places where most needed throughout the war.

 - that Remy Sidings were sidings constructed from the main railway line to allow ambulance trains to get to these medical stations that had been set up at a farm called Remi Quaghebeur. Some sidings went to base hospitals.

Entrance to Remy Hospital and Cemetery 1920

A member of the Great War Forum (Diane, username Bardess) has transcribed all the war diaries for the No 17 Casual Clearing Station at Remy Siding.  You can view the transcriptions without registering...  

...and if you register as a member for free and ask nice she will be happy to give you a copy of the specific page. 

Alexander George Mavor, age 24, was laid to rest in the cemetery at Remi Station, now the Lijssenthoek Cemetery, Poperinge, Ypres... Section VI  Row B  Grave 8A .

Remi Siding Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Ypres

RIP Alexander George Mavor 1891-1916

The UK CCS War Diaries link below includes Australian CCSs. To get only Australian type Australian in front of casualty clearing station in the search box top left. 

  

Relevant Links

Great War Forum, member post No 17 casualty clearing station Remy Farm

Locations of British Casualty Clearing Stations

Location of Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations in The Great War, by place

Surgery at a casualty clearing station 1918

Australian Casualty Clearing Station Memorials

No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station Mobilized

No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station at BIFHSGO

LAC War diaries - 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (click Digital Objects)

LAC War diaries - 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (click Digital Objects)

LAC War diaries - 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (click Digital Objects)

LAC War diaries – 4th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (click Digital Objects)

Military Hospitals Admissions and Discharge Registers WW1 -UK

National Archives UK online collections – Casualty Clearing Station War Diaries

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