to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safer

The Chain of Evacuation on the Western Front

History

The historical context of medicine in the early 20th century

The British sector of the Western Front

Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front

Medical treatment in Casualty Clearing Stations and Base Hospitals

The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine

In this unit, pupils study a specific historical environment. They learn about the local context of this area and the way in which it interacted with national issues and the themes they have studied in their thematic study.

Historic environments

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

The Chain of {{}} was a system used to move wounded men to locations where they could receive appropriate medical care.

Starting with the earliest, sort the following stages of the Chain of Evacuation into their correct order.

Where were most surgeries conducted on the Western Front?

What proportion of VAD members were female in 1914?

Wounds which were serious enough to require treatment back in Britain, but not life-threatening, were known as {{}} wounds.

Stretcher bearers were sometimes killed by snipers and shells.

Stretcher bearers were never killed by enemy forces.

A {{}} is an injury, especially one that is made by a bullet or sharp object.

How many British soldiers suffered from trench foot during WWI?

Poison gas accounted for what percentage of deaths in the British Army during WWI?

Match each medical condition to its cause.

What were Brodie helmets intended to protect soldiers from?

introduction of tetanus vaccines for soldiers

proven that lice were responsible for trench fever

Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

Starter Quiz