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Cranston Fine Arts  Military Art and Artists 19th Century Military History 19th Century Regiments  Army Service Corps |
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Army Service Corps by Richard Caton Woodville. No text for this item |
Army Service Corps by Richard Simkin No text for this item |
Driver Burberry driving wagons through a town under heavy shellfire. On several occasions Driver P Burberry of the Army Service Corps, volunteered to drive convoy wagons through a town under heavy shellfire. He showed great coolness and bravery, and was awarded the D.C.M. |
A motor wagon, which private Clements was driving narrowly escaping being blown to bits. For great coolness and bravery displayed by him while under fire since the beginning of the war, Private T. R. Clements, of the Army Service Corps, has gained the D.C.M. On one occasion he made no less than fourteen journeys with signal stores through a town, which was in flames and under heavy shellfire. On two occasions he narrowly escaped with his life, his car being struck by shells, and nearly buried in the debris of falling houses. |
Private Adams going to the assistance of the wounded in a motor ambulance which had run into a shell hole while under fire. While on its way to the dressing station, a motor ambulance, which was full of wounded, ran into a shell hole. Private L. A. Adams, of the Army Service Corps, assisted to remove the wounded while under shellfire, and when the car had been hauled out and the wounded replaced, brought them safely to their destination. For his conspicuous bravery he was awarded the D.C.M. |
Driver Caley towing back, under fire a car, which had broken down. An ambulance car having broken down at the first line of the old enemy trenches. Driver G. E. Caley, of the Army Service Corps (attached Royal Army Medical Corps) assisted in the taking up another car. On arriving he helped to load the wounded on his own car, and then towed the other back to the dressing station. For his conspicuous gallantry he was awarded the D.C.M. |
Provisional Farrier Sergeant Cussens extricating horses from stables in which a shell had burst. For conspicuous gallantry and coolness on November 5th 1914, at Ypres in extricating the horses after a shell had burst in the stables, Provisional Farrier-Sergeant T Cussens, of the army service corps, was awarded the D.C.M. The shell killed six men and many horses. |
Private Holmes driving a motor ambulance in the reverse for four hundred yards while under fire. While driving a motor ambulance up to bring in some wounded near Hulluch on September 26th 1915, Private J Holmes of the Army Service Corps (attached to the 23rd Field Ambulance) was fired upon by the enemy. He drove the car in the reverse for four hundred yards, the man beside him having been killed, till a bullet struck the carburettor. He then came up with another car, and safely towed his own away. His car was hit twenty-two times, and but for his great bravery and resource, must have been wrecked. Holmes was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. |
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