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Chain of Evacuation - Coggle Diagram
Chain of Evacuation
Stretcher bearers
Regimental Aid Post (RAP)
Dressing Station
Casualty Clearing Station
Base Hospital
Near to train lines, roads or canals
Specialist departments for specific war injuries
Gas clinics
X-ray centres
Laboratories
For accurately identifying infections
Some were underground
Arras underground hospital (and city)
Operating theatre
Canteens
Mortuary
Electric lighting
Latrines
Chapels
Housed 25,000 soldiers
Power stations
Railway
Had X-rays
Soldiers could be operated on
Had wards
Had operating theatres
Had kitchens
Triage
Lesser injuries waited longer to be treated
Serious injuries were tended to quickly
Field ambulance could transport soldier 10 miles behind lines to CCS
Horse Drawn
Motorised
Apply treatment
Sent men to DS
Carried men off the battlefield
Directly retrieved wounded
4 bearers per stretcher
Sometimes targeted by enemy fire
Basic medical care
Took soldiers to RAP
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
(FANY)
Set up in 1907
Originally members were mounted on horseback
Actively involved in rescuing the wounded
Similar to modern combat medics
Drove ambulances
Ran Casualty Clearing Stations
Entirely made up of women
British Army refused their help until 1916
Belgium and France accepted their help
Supplied mobile kitchens and baths
Royal Army Medical Corps
Took the lead in treating soldiers
Ran the staging posts
Set up the chain of evacuation
Set up in 1898
Had experience with modern weapon wounds
Bow war 1899-1902
Unprepared for the nature and scale of wounds in WWI
Grew 10x the size over the course of the war
(RAMC)
Designed for doctors to transport, assess and care for wouded soldiers
Systematic approach
Moved men back in stages