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Here we see two R.A.M.C. orderlies (presumably two more are at the back out of shot!), carrying a wounded German on a stretcher. The picture was taken in September-October 1918 during the British advance, a time when a great many wounded Germans were captured.
A Doctor on the Western Front - The Diaries of Henry Owens, 1914-1918, ed. John Hutton. Follows a doctor who reached the front during the period of mobile warfare in 1914 and was present at Ypres, the Somme and Passchendaele. Makes it clear just how dangerous the life of a doctor was on the Western Front, often serving under shell fire and sometimes right at the very front. [read full review]
