Awards MiD & Military Cross Lt. D.I. McCallum, RAMC (France 1940 & Rhine Crossing)

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    Lt. Donald Ian McCallum, No. 13 Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps, B.E.F.

    Service No: 115488
    Award: Mentioned in Despatches


    WO 373/89/780

    Robert Leslie Wilson, Sergeant, 7259787, Royal Army Medical Corps.
    Evaded: Aux-le-Chateuax [via Sierra Leone], 19 October 1940.
    Arrived in UK: 9 November 1940.

    WO 208/3299/95

    153 (Br) Field Ambulance, RAMC, 227 (Highland) Infantry Brigade, 15 (Scottish) Infantry Division, 12 Corps
    Award: Military Cross


    WO 373/54/809
     
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    Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser 25th October 1941
     
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    Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser 29th November 1941
     
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    His interesting ts memoir (My Experiences in France, 6pp), recording his active service with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in France and Belgium (May 1940 – August 1940), including his evacuation on foot as an officer with the 13th CCS (Casualty Clearing Station) from Domart near Amiens in France towards St Pol (20 May 1940); being cut off by German motorised units at Doullens and, having divided into three parties each under an officer, taking command of a small party of 12 men which attempted to break out of the German encirclement and re-establish contact with Allied Forces (May 1940 - June 1940), including coming under fire from a German tank, swimming the River Authie, marching through the Forest of Crecy (May 1940), and being sheltered by "a kindly French official" in a hut (May 1940 – June 1940); escaping occupation of the area around Le Crotoy by the Germans, swimming across the mouth of the Somme, and marching to Mers near le Treport, where the majority of the party were captured by the Germans (June 1940); marching to and swimming with his Sergeant across the Seine and the River Orne to reach the coast opposite Jersey (June 1940), managing to talk their way out of an interrogation by a German officer near Caen by pretending to be French refugees; learning that Jersey had also been occupied they now made for the Pyrenees and into Unoccupied, Vichy France passing through Tours, Chateauroux and Montpellier to Marseilles where they were interned and held in Fort St Jean (June – July 1940); he subsequently escaped and got back to the UK (August 1940); and commenting on the assistance given by the Belgian and French population during their journey across France; the lack of food; the conditions; being surrounded by German troops; how he and his companions managed to cross rivers, helping the non-swimmers; and escaping German sentries during his journey.
    Private Papers of Major D I McCallum MB
     
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