Current Information:

Born-Clerkenwell

Enlisted-London

Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France

The field ambulances provided by the Royal Army Medical Corps were mobile medical units whose function was to provide stretcher bearers to collect the wounded and to give emergency aid before sending them back to Casualty Clearing Stations and then Base Hospitals. Working close to the front line they were often victims themselves of enemy fire, especially the stretcher bearers.

Frederick Boultwood died from wounds on 13th March, 1915 after having been sent to a base hospital on the coast, but as yet there is no information as to when and where he was wounded. 21st Field Ambulance was part of 7th Division. which were in action during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915.