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World War 1-- Medical Musings,

Exploring the RAMC, WW 1 nurses, V.A.D.S, and more

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Indiana Jones Can't Top This: A Survival Tale so Outrageous it's Hard to Believe

Indiana Jones Can't Top This: A Survival Tale so Outrageous it's Hard to Believe

".... Lying on his back and holding on to the spring, he was dragged along the ground, with both his legs broken, for a distance of abo

Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914

Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914

Accounts of British volunteers serving at a college-turned-hospital in Furnes (Verune), Belgium early in World War I. Includes a harrowing a

Indiana Jones Can't Top This: A Survival Tale so Outrageous it's Hard to Believe

Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914

The British WW1 Uniform and Kit

Description of WW1 Operating Theatre

Vivid Description of WW1 Casualty Clearing Station (in a French Chateau!)

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Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914

Riveting Tales from a Belgian Field Hospital, 1914

The British WW1 Uniform and Kit

The British WW1 Uniform and Kit

Description of WW1 Operating Theatre

Description of WW1 Operating Theatre

Vivid Description of WW1 Casualty Clearing Station (in a French Chateau!)

Vivid Description of WW1 Casualty Clearing Station (in a French Chateau!)

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Blight·y

blīdē/ noun BRITISH

an informal and typically affectionate term for Britain
or England, chiefly as used by soldiers of WW1 and WW2
- military slang: a wound suffered by a soldier in WW1 that was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain.

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