WWI CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (recreated)
Casualty Clearing Station No. 3 / Canadian Nursing Sisters --
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Newville Pennsylvania - April 2015
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Red Hands relaxing.
Identifying casualties in front of St.George’s Parish.
Field surgery.
Stretcher placed on trestles.
Medical Officer at work. Flanked by Nursing Sisters as a scrub nurse and an anaesthetist.
Ether ensures the patient will be unconscious during the procedure.
Applying retractors to open an abdominal wound for viewing.
A Canadian Nursing Sister offers comfort to a French poilu suffering from shell shock.
The poilu is reluctant to give up his rifle to the medical orderly.
A stack of arms at the Casualty Clearing Station. The Duty Orderly tent stands in the background.
A portion of Canadian Casualty Clearing Station No. 3 tentage.
Military Chaplain.
Duties of a padre.
Ministering to the mortally wounded.
Walking wounded tended by a Canadian Nursing Sister.
Wounded.
Wounded officer of French colonial troops.
The Matron and a Nursing Sister.
Covering the role of triage nurse.
Outdoor operating theatre.
Surgical team.
French colonial troops. Zouaves.
A zouave.
French zouaves awaiting medical attention.
Stacked arms.
French stretcher bearers bring in a wounded soldier.
Not an easy burden to bear.
A Thomas Splint is applied to a broken lower limb.
A fatality.
Assisting a comrade to the Casualty Clearing Station.
British command staff lead a column of troops headed for the front directly past the Casualty Clearing Station.
A number of wounded soldier vignettes are acted out as the column marches past.
Another French casualty arrives.
French and American commanders march past.
Americans march through the chaos.
American stretcher bearers.
The Matron directs the flow of incoming wounded.
A highlander takes in the view as he heads up the road to an uncertain future.
The column continues to move past the CCS.
Canadian Vicker’s machine gun crew moves up the road intending to support the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
Vicker’s gun crew.
U.S. Ordnance Department transport.
French zouave.
Identifying a mortally wounded soldier.
A pause to reflect on the loss of another soldier.
Preparing for burial detail.
Walking wounded obtain refreshments.
Wounded.
French stretcher bearers.
French stretcher bearers.
Minor injuries.
Our Medical Officer with a successfully treated patient.
Canadian Nursing Sister with a British soldier.
Treating an eye injury.
U.S. Ordnance Department vehicle.
U.S. Ordnance Department Dodge.
U.S. Ordnance Department Dodge truck.
Military Police of the American Expeditionary Force.
U.S. Ordnance Department driver.
U.S. Ordnance Department vehicle and driver.
The Black Watch has a newly built field oven. Nicely done.
Wounded soldier from the Black Watch.
Two wounded soldiers make their way behind the lines to seek medical attention.
The Canadian Nursing Sisters attend to the walking wounded.
This soldier has lost his hearing.
Tending to superficial laterations.
Cleaning up a wound.
The Matron speaks fluent French.
These three soldiers have picked up an intestinal disorder which actually appears to be a type of social disease. Soldiers with venereal disease were treated at the Casualty Clearing Stations and actually formed a ready corps of labourers.
These soldiers receive refreshment and some not-so-good news regarding their impending treatment for VD. Naughty rascals.
Awaiting word on a wounded chum.
This individual is in trouble. Drunk and disorderly and in the Sergeant Major’s bad books.
The Salvation Army Rest Area provides much needed refreshment and support to front line troops.
Tending to wounded French soldiers.
A French poilu.
A wounded French poilu struggles with rolling his tobacco.
More wounded. Some with an attitude which needs an adjustment so as not to decrease the morale of others.
Spreading bitterness towards leadership accused of not wanting to leave the trenches in the recent attack. Bold words with no basis in fact.
Canadian medical orderly.
A badly wounded case brought in to the hospital tent for closer examination by the Medical Officer.
It looks serious indeed.
Nursing Sister reviews this soldier’s FIELD MEDICAL CARD for details covering the nature of his wounds.
Beyond help.
Providing further details on this soldier’s medical documentation.
Bringing in the wounded.
Mass gas casualties begin to arrive at the Casualty Clearing Station.
Leading the blind.
Apparently a leak in the nitrous oxide cylinders at the Casualty Clearing Station caused these soldiers to be overcome by laughing gas.
The influx of wounded continues.
Nursing Sister treats an eye injury.
Many wounded soldiers.
Splints applied to a fractured forearm.
Mortally wounded.
Mortally wounded.
Mortally wounded.
Water detail.
Zouaves move down the road.
Our Chaplain attends a memorial service.
Returning from a memorial service.
© Jeffrey Brown 2020
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