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The Historic Environment:
The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914…
The Historic Environment:
The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-1918
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War thingsy
RAPs
Regiment Aid Posts
Very first medical site, on the front line (just 100-200 meters from it)
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Base hospital
The main hospital that can treat the people with serious casualties, last in line before soldiers are drafted back into war
RAMC
Royal Army Medical Corps
Provides medical support to the front line, and there were 9 thousand to 118 thousand staff working there from the start to the end of the war
were very important because without them we wouldn't have opf been able to draft as many back into the war, and therefore we wouldn't have had as many troops and so on
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FANNY
People that helped out with the war (women) that helped, but didn't fight, instead they drove ambulances and more
Key battles of World War I and the Ypres salient, the Somme, Arras and Cambrai
The trench system; its construction and organisation, including frontline and support trenches
The use of mines at Hill 60 near Ypres and the expansion of tunnels, caves and quarries at Arras
Significance for medical treatment of the nature of the terrain and problems of the transport and communications infrastructure
Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front; trench fever, trench foot, dysentery, shell shock
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The system of transport; stretcher-bearers, horse and motor ambulances
The stages of treatment areas; aid post and field ambulance, dressing station, casualty clearing station, base hospital
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The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine; new techniques in the treatment of wounds and infection, the Thomas Splint, mobile x-ray units, creation of a blood bank for the Battle of Cambrai
The historical context of medicine in the early C20th; infection and the move towards aseptic surgery, development of x-rays, blood transfusions, developments in the storage of blood
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Knowledge of national sources: army records, national newspapers, government reports, medical articles
Knowledge of local sources; personal accounts, photographs, hospital records, army statistics
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