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Description: | British medical services on the Western Front, 1916-18.
(Reel 1) "Stretcher bearers" (most probably a wiring party) crossing no man's land. An RAMC doctor in a shellhole attends to two heavily bandaged patients. Wounded, some walking and some on stretchers, are brought into the trenches. One blinded soldier is helped across the battlefield by a chaplain. Wounded, including some Germans, pass through trenches. Walking wounded of the Australian 2nd Division. RAMC men try to manoeuvre a stretcher across a wide dugout while a soldier in the foreground tries to sleep. A stretcher party crosses a narrow canal by footbridge. Wounded troops at a forward dressing station. Wounded being transported by wheeled stretchers. A medical corpsman joking with a wounded German prisoner. Walking wounded at a dressing station are attended to by a doctor. A man on a stretcher dictates a letter to a chaplain. Men of the Australian 1st and 2nd Divisions on stretchers being loaded into an ambulance. Ambulances driving to a Casualty Clearing Station. A doctor at work in the CCS. The patients are labelled and taken out to a hospital ship. (Reel 2) Other patients are loaded into a Red Cross train, some of them walking, others on stretchers. Scenes of the Princess Louise Convalescent Home for Nurses in France with its matron, Lady Gifford. A VAD ambulance convoy at work at Etaples in June 1917. "The two women of Pervyse", Baroness T'Serclaes (previously Mrs Elsie Knocker) and Mairi Chisholm, at work with Belgian troops. A hospital train being unloaded and wounded being taken on board a hospital ship (number E 8106) by members of the RAMC and FANY. The ship then leaves harbour.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Belgian Army 01/3(4-15) Mairi Lambert Gooden Australian Imperial Force no man's land Royal Army Medical Corps First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Chisholm 2nd Division Australian Army Gifford (Lady) T'Serclaes British Army 1st Division Elsie de | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Information | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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