The original graves of two members of the 12th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps ...

The original graves of two members of the 12th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps (AASC) at Allonville Communal Cemetery, France. From left to right: 3383 Private (Pte) Frederick Reeve Chamberlain, and 14016 Corporal (Cpl) Clyde Raymond Stevenson MM. Cpl Stevenson was a photographer of Prahran, Vic prior to enlisting on 2 March 1916 as a member of the 3rd Australian Casualty clearing Station and sailed on HMAT Medic from Melbourne on 20 May 1916. Both men were killed in action at Amiens, France, on 10 July 1918, when they were hit by a shell while carrying wounded at Amiens. The Military Medal was awarded to Cpl Stevenson posthumously on 27 November 1918, for 'conspicuous bravery' in carrying wounded over a long and dangerous route during a heavy bombardment at Millencourt in April 1918. This photograph is fromf an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau.