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The Western Front (Weapons (The bayonet (turned the rifle into a thrusting…

- - - - raw
        
        biased towards their side
        
        over-exaggerated
        
        highly emotive
      - subjective
      - museums
        
        Imperial war museum
      - published collections
      - one point of view
        
        not big picture
        
        narrow
    - - national archives
      - welcome institute
      - types of injuries + hospital stays
    - - public
      - newspaper letters
      - between officials
        
        national archives
- - - - SB-RAP-FADS-CCS-BH
        
        Stretcher Bearers
        
        carried dead and wounded away from trenches
        
        had to deal with mud, shell-craters and crouded, twisted trenches
        
        supplied with morphine & bandages
        
        weren't enough stretcher bearers
        
        Regimental Aid Post (RAP)
        
        close to the front line, sometimes in firing trench but at most 200m behind it
        
        The RAP had a medical officer whose job was to distinguish between the lightly wounded and those needing more medical care
        
        he would bandage very light wounds
        
        Field Ambulances and Dressing Stations
        
        -NOT A VEHICLE but a large mobile medical unit with medical officers, support staff and in 1915, some nurses
        
        dressing stations had the wounded sent from the RAP and they were sorted into more severe cases, a system known as triage
        
        Casualty Clearing Station (CCS)
        
        the first large, well-equipped medical facility the wounded would see
        
        quite a way from the battle front - usually in large tents or huts
        
        doctors, nurses etc - by 1917 it had operations (amputations), x-rays, beds, kitchen, toilet blocks & accommodation for staff
        
        Base Hospitals
        
        usually by port or train stations so soldiers could be taken back to England & soldiers were evacuated by trains or by motor cars
        
        very good facilities - x-rays, operation theatres, treatment for gas poisoning