Explore: Dressing Station

as shelter. A field hospital is generally larger than a temporary aid station but smaller than a permanent military hospital. International humanitarian

site are the remains of concrete bunkers used by a British Advanced Dressing Station, while separate memorials to John McCrae and his poem In Flanders Fields

nights the wounded passed through the dressing stations in a never-ending stream." Among the dressing stations was an old Greek church which Spencer drew

Ambulance 213th Field Ambulance 14th Field Dressing Station 15th Field Dressing Station 38th Field Dressing Station 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division,

First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to

bombardment, Pte. Clare dressed and conducted wounded over the open to the dressing-station about 500 yards away. At one period when all the garrison of a detached

wounded. At 18:00 the Main Dressing Station was closed and the men moved to Johnny I. During the time the main dressing station had been active, the surgeons

to bring in a wounded man, and carrying him nearly half a mile to a dressing-station, subsequently rejoining his platoon. The artillery fire was at the

would establish a Dressing Station. It use stretchers or carts to retrieve the wounded and transport them to the Dressing Station. The Immobile Section

left them abandoned before eventually being brought to an Advanced Dressing Station by stretcher bearers from the Scots Guards. The Victoria Cross was