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Emily Mayhew describes the way in which, during the First World War, the battalion and regimental stretcher bearers transformed the medical landscape of the western front battlefield and beyond, detailing how bearers developed extraordinary skills at both the point of wounding, and during the casualty evacuation phase that ensured casualties were able to survive complex injuries that would otherwise have been deemed fatal.
Dr Emily Mayhew is a military medical historian specialising in the study of severe casualty, its infliction, treatment and long-term outcomes in 20th and 21st century warfare. She is historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, working primarily with the researchers and staff of the Centre for Injury Studies. She is also a Trustee of the Advance Study Charity Board.
Image: This is a photograph from the collections of the Imperial War Museum, Q5935 IWM