Frederick Callan born 1897 – Military Career First World War: Royal Army Medical Corps

Enlisted 29 Mar 1915

2 Royal Army Medical Corps
Reg No 40376
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8/2 W Field Ambulance
Rank Private
Former Trade Warehouseman
Embarked Southampton 16 Aug 1916
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Disembarked Le Havre 17 Aug 1916 and joined 49 (?) Base Depot
Attached to 1/1 Field Ambulance 15 Jan 1917
Attached to 146 Machine Gun Company for Water Duties 26 Jan 1917
Granted leave to UK 12 – 26 Nov 1917
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Granted 1 Good conduct badge 29 Mar 1917
Admitted to Field Hospital with appendicitis 19 Dec 1917
Discharged from Field Hospital 1 Jan 1918
Readmitted with dysentery 9 Jan 1918
Then a note just below the dysentery entry giving NOK as mother and Edith Callan, 34 Yardley
Terrace, Woodhouse, Leeds
Transferred to 14 Ambulance Train 14 Jan 1918
Transferred to No 14 Stationary Hospital Wimereux 14 Jan 1918
Transferred and embarked Belgian Hospital Ship Jan Breydel 27 Jan 1918

Belgian Hospital Ship Jan Breydel

Admitted Addington Park War Hospital (to convalesce from dysentery) 27 Jan 1918
Discharged as Fit for Duty 25 Sep 1918
Joined H Company, RAMC Depot, Squires Gate, Blackpool 27 Sep 1918*
Admitted to Seafield Military Hospital, Blackpool, with influenza 16 Nov 1918
Transferred to Kirkham Military Hospital, Lancashire 25 Nov 1918
 Kirkham Military Hospital Infirmary, Lancashire
(formerly Kirkham Workhouse)

Transferred to KLMC Hospital, Blackpool 3 Dec 1918

Transferred to Dispersal Hospital, Nell Lane Military Hospital, West Didsbury** 3 Feb 1919

Nell Lane Military Hospital, West Didsbury

(formerly the Withington Workhouse)

Around this time there as a worldwide influenza pandemic and unfortunately some soldiers admitted to
Seafield with influenza died as a result

Discharged Derby 4 Mar 1919 as disabled by influenza caught in Blackpool and considered caught as
a result of being in service during the First World War
4 years service

Notes:

*In the football season which began in Sept 1918 two soldiers stationed at the RAMC Depot in
Blackpool, Jimmy Heathcote (debuted 8 February) and Harry Mingay (debuted at the return fixture)
played for Blackpool FC. Both went on to sign professional terms with the club for the 1919-20 season
when Jimmy Heathcote became that season’s top scorer for the club, with eighteen goals. Whilst Fred
may not have known them personally he would most likely have been aware of their presence at the
depot and their footballing achievements

** More than 10,000 POWs were held at Nell Lane Military Hospital