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'We Too Were Soldiers' by Dr Vivien Newman

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WAAC workers and Chief Ordnance Office Staff, Rouen 1917 ‘We Too Were Soldiers’ 1 By Dr Vivien Newman Viv Newman's long-standing interest in the Great War led, after many years teaching women's war poetry at A level, to a PhD thesis entitled Songs of Wartime Lives: Women's Poetry of the First World War (2004) University of Essex. The thes...

066: January 2003

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'The Civilian Contribution to the Medical Needs of the Great War, with examples from Cumbria by Richard Preston'

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'The Civilian Contribution to the Medical Needs of the Great War, with examples from Cumbria'. Richard's talk looks at the development of VADs and how they were directly related to the growth of Auxiliary Hospitals (VAD hospitals) and the civilian appetite for voluntary efforts. It is based upon a report written in 1921 of the work done in Cumbr...

Mud, Blood and Bandages: The RAMC on the Western Front by Andy Robertshaw

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Mud, Blood and Bandages: The RAMC on the Western Front by Andy Robertshaw. Andy's presentation explores the multiple roles of the medical services in preventing disease and dealing with the sick and wounded on the front line. How did the system of medical evacuation take place? Who was responsible for treatment at each stage in this process? Ho...