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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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On 24th October the Field Ambulance left Ecoivres for Prouville where they set up a dressing station in a chateau and evacuated cases to Doullens by horse and wagon.

'The real value of your son - he was a born nurse'

As a result of this, there were some 350 burials in the vicinity of the dressing station between then and the end of March 1918.

Record number of burials at Tyne Cot Cemetery

The Dressing Station proves that not only is Kaplan a good doctor but he also has a very evident flair for writing.

REVIEW:The Dressing Station

The two corpsmen had already talked about how they would divide medical duties in the event of a mass casualty emergency -- Parlier would handle injuries at the after battle dressing station, while Moser took care of patients up forward.

IN THE Presence OF Heroes

When there was accommodation at the 25th Field Dressing Station I was posted up there and stayed for a number of months.

Keeping her memories alive: Pamela MaCleod (nee Whitehead) Red Cross nurse Korean War

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.

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

On November 11, 1917, near a dressing station at La Bergere, a "lunatic soldier" escaped from his escort.

Soldier saved pals by stepping on grenade; BRAVERY WWI HERO'S MEDAL FOR SALE Wounded James recovered and went on to star as professional footballer

Joan Hunter of Blyth, his great neice, tells his story: "On 12/10/17 he escorted his officer (who had been injured in the attack on Passchendaele) to the dressing station, he left to return to the line and was never seen again, presumed to have taken a direct hit by a shell.

WE asked you to tell us in the Dardanelles ... his

With eyes and lungs damaged by German mustard gas, 10 blindfolded soldiers struggle towards a dressing station.

A bitter truth

Gerry said: "I was taking the wounded in, I probably took him into the dressing station - but I wouldn't have recognised him covered in blood.