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The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: Injuries, Treatment and the Trenches

Medical treatment on the Western Front

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Overview

The RAMC, the FANY, the army's trained nurses and the VADs, stretcher bearers, horse-drawn and motor ambulances, the chain of evacuation from regimental aid post, field ambulance and dressing station to casualty clearing station and base hospital, triage, and the underground hospital at Arras.

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Who nursed and carried the wounded on the Western Front, and how were casualties first moved?

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Which service provided the army's trained nurses, and how did it change during the war?

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Who were the VADs?

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  1. 1

    Which part of the army was responsible for treating and evacuating the wounded?

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    The Royal Army Medical Corps, whose strength grew from a few thousand men before the war to well over a hundred thousand by 1918.

  2. 2

    What was the FANY, and what did its members do?

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    The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, a women's volunteer corps whose members drove ambulances and supply lorries and ran rest stations near the fighting.

  3. 3

    Which service provided the army's trained nurses, and how did it change during the war?

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    Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, which grew from a few hundred nurses before 1914 to around ten thousand.

  4. 4

    Who were the VADs?

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    Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteers, mostly women with little training, who nursed, cooked, cleaned and drove for the medical services.

  5. 5

    Who brought the wounded in from the battlefield, and when did they usually go out?

    Model answer

    Stretcher bearers, working in teams of four, who often collected men after dark because daylight made them targets.

  6. 6

    Why was stretcher bearing so slow in wet weather?

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    The mud was so deep that six or more men might be needed for one stretcher, and a single journey could take hours.

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