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STATION, civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 49, 12, 1, 13; id. 50, 15, 59.

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The cemetery first came into being in October 1917 when one of several German blockhouses on the Passchendaele Ridge was captured by the British Army and used as an advanced dressing station.
Record number of burials at Tyne Cot Cemetery
They also tell how a small bunker became a major casualty dressing station and how poppies which grew amid the carnage became an emblem of the victims of war.
HOLIDAY HOTSPOTS: TOURS OF DUTY; On Remembrance Sunday.. two holidays that let you honour our troops & enjoy a fantastic family break Follow in the footsteps of heroes
Jonathan Kaplan's The Dressing Station recounts his days in the medical profession.
REVIEW:The Dressing Station
Pass the word." Parlier started toward the after battle dressing station (ABDS), but took only a couple of steps before encountering an injured Cole Sailor in the passageway.
IN THE Presence OF Heroes
[I was posted at] Field Dressing Station [a First Aid post close to the combat area].
Keeping his memories alive
The next day, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson saw that McCrae was sitting, behind an ambulance, near the dressing station beside the Yser Canal, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres.
Poem that immortalised poppy as a poignant symbol of memorial
Cpl McLean, in charge of a machine gun team, was wounded but continued to man his gun until 3pm that afternoon when his superior officer ordered him to retire to a dressing station. He was on the sick list for a month.
Village's timely gift for war hero; Wounded but still manned machine gun
He waited nearly three hours for stretcher bearers to take him to a dressing station nearby but he died soon after arrival.
'We remember the sacrifice... and loss' PRINCE CHARLES LEADS TRIBUTES TO WELSH SOLDIERS KILLED IN WWI BATTLE
I was picked up and taken to Ypres Dressing Station and my wounds dressed.
The tale of a true rugby league hero
Pte Jones was a stretcher bearer whose job it was to collect wounded and dead soldiers - and their body parts - and return them to the dressing station.
Song tells the story of an honest boy shot at dawn; Private William Jones was probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder induced by the horrors of the Great War when he deserted the army. But handing himself in was to have fatal consequences for the soldier, not much more than a boy, as Rachael Misstear reports..
He was shot in both legs and died on his way to the dressing station. He had been in the battalion for eight years and was a member of St Saviour's Church in Everton.
On This Day; ...100 YEARS AGO
"Jones was a stretcher bearer in France who went missing on June 15, 1917, after taking a wounded soldier to the dressing station.
HORROR OF THE WELSH SOLDIERS SHOT AT DAWN... New book portrays brutality faced by World War I troops

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