{"id":7040,"date":"2025-04-21T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:24:28","slug":"black-j-e-captain-mc-royal-army-medical-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/black-j-e-captain-mc-royal-army-medical-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Black J E Captain MC Royal Army Medical Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black J E Captain MC Royal Army Medical Corps<\/p><\/div>\n

BLACK, JAMES ELLIOT, M.C., Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 8th (Service) Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., a. of the late Major Adam Elliot Black died 31 May, 1893), Officer Commanding Clyde Brigade of Royal Engineer Submarine Mines, by his wife, Mary Bruce Murray (Finglen Cottage, Campste Glen, co. Stirling), dau, of John Bruce Murray; b. 5. Bruce Street, Glasgow, W., 10 March, 1887; educ. Cargilfield; Fettes College; Glasgow University, and University College, London; was studying for a D.P.H., Cambridge University, when war broke out in Aug. 1914, after which he volunteered for foreign service, being gazetted Lieut. Royal Army Medical Corps (Special Reserve) on the 22nd of the following month, and promoted Capt. April, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 7 Nov. 1914, attached to No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station, near Bailleni, until 16 Feb. 1916, when he joined the 8th Bedfordshire Regt., and was killed in action near Loos 19 April, 1917. Buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe.<\/p>\n

Col. Lord Ampthill, Officer Commanding 8th Bedfordshire Regt., wrote: He established his Ald Post as near the fighting line as possible, and there he worked with unremitting zeal and devotion and without a thought of danger till the end. I can honestly tell you that no medical officer could have been more beloved in the battalion than he was. We all feel that we shall never see his like again. There is nobody in the battallon whose loss we could feel more keenly.” He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916] by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and was awarded the Military Cross London Gazette, Nov. 1916]: “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in action. He rendered valuable service when attending the wounded under heavy machine-gun and shell fire. Later he went out into No Man’s Land to succour the wounded.” Unm.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLACK, JAMES ELLIOT, M.C., Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 8th (Service) Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., a. of the late Major Adam Elliot Black died 31 May, 1893), Officer Commanding Clyde Brigade of Royal Engineer Submarine Mines, by his wife, Mary Bruce Murray (Finglen Cottage, Campste Glen, co. Stirling), dau, of John Bruce Murray; b. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-army-medical-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}