Medical Locations and Interventions

The soldiers, on both sides of the war, fighting was constantly interrupted by health concerns, injury, sickness, and death.  The deplorable conditions in the trenches; never-ending stress associated with small arms, shell, and gas attacks; rapid spread of diseases like flu and measles; and the ever present stench of death, meant that not one person— whether engaged on the battlefield or praying at home-- would be left, untouched by the war. 

Listed, below, are reports of various medical interventions Grandpa received, while serving.  Also included are the locations, indicating where the medical services were received:
 
Evacuated Sick to Hospital
Red Lodge, Steenwerck, France (27 April 1917)

Admitted to No.3 New Zealand Field Ambulance
Red Lodge, Steenwerck, France (27 April 1917)

Transferred to No.2 New Zealand DRS (Divisional Rest Station)
Steenwerck, France (28 April 1917)

Transported to 2nd Australian C.C.S. (Casualty Clearing Station)
Trois Arbres (near Bailleul), France (29 April 1917)

Admitted to 2nd Australian C.C.S. (Casualty Clearing Station)
Trois Arbres (near Bailleul), France (29 April 1917)

Admitted to No.1 New Zealand Field Ambulance
Ravelsberg (near Bailleul), France (12 May 1917)

Admitted sick to No.7 General Hospital
St. Omer, France (27 May 1917)

Admitted No.7 Convalescent Depot
St Omer, France (3 June 1917)

Admitted No.10 Convalescent Depot
Ecault, France (7 June 1917)

Admitted to No.24 General Hospital
Etaples, France (13 July 1917)

Admitted No.6 Convalescent Depot
Etaples, France (9 August 1917)

Admitted No.5 Convalescent Depot
Cayeux, France (11 August 1917)   

Wounded remained with Unit
Chateau Road and Glencorse Lane, Dickebusch, France (19 Nov. 1917)

Admitted Endell St. Hospital while on Leave from France
London, England (3 November 1918)

1 comment:

  1. So true, the trenches were rife for all sorts of illness. Interesting historical references to a pandemic that spread across the continents.

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