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Description: | British officer served with Royal Army Medical Corps at Netley Military Hospital, GB, 1915; served with 9th Bn Border Regt on Western Front and in Salonika, Greece, 1915-1916; served with 2nd Bn Middlesex Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Aspects of period as medical officer with Royal Army Medical Corps at Netley Hospital, Hants, 1915: background to recruitment; use of huts to expand number of hospital wards; examples of patients exacerbating wounds to prevent return to active service; cases of Sikh troops self inflicted wounds; state of patients' morale. Recollections of operations with 9th Bn Border Regt in Somme area, France, 9/1915-10/1915: role of regimental aid posts, field ambulance units; medical officers and casualty clearing stations in treatment and evacuation of wounded; organisation of stretcher bearers and Regimental Aid Post.
REEL 2 Continues: initial treatment of wounded, arrangements for evacuation by ambulance; methods of stopping bleeding; risk of tetanus infection; question of role of medical officers in front line; methods of stopping bleeding; red cross protection for ambulances; question of cases of shell shock; account of role during execution of soldier for cowardice; question of attitude to executions and shell shock cases.
REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of operations in Salonika, 1915-1916: role diagnosing malaria and cholera; attack of malaria; second hand reports of cases of sexual frustration treated by establishment of army brothels; terms of appointment as medical officer; return to GB with severe malaria. Aspects of period on medical boards whilst attached to 2/6th Bn Suffolk Regt at Sutton on Sea, 1916-1917; role attached to field ambulance unit, 1917. Recollections of operations attached to 2nd Bn Middlesex Regt on Western Front during German offensive in Villers Bretonneux sector, Somme area, 3/1918: establishing Regimental Aid Post in quarry; burial of stretcher bearers by direct shell hit on cave; emergency evacuation ordered by VC winner Captain Toye; casualties; story illustrating necessity of leaving severely wounded behind. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lance, David G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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