How difficult it must be to care for ill and injured at the scene of an active war site! And well over 100 years since WW1 and with the intervening wars and medical advances from then till now – it is an even more challenging task to envisage the diffulty of providing medical aid during the ANZAC conflict! Our medicos all, deserve special recognition and gratitude!
There are many images worth sharing here – but in view of the upcoming ANZAC day in just a few days, I’ve chosen just this one from the anniversary of the first ANZAC day 109 years ago.
Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915. the first field dressing station of the 7th Battalion, AIF (Australian Infantry Forces). It was a natural hole in Monash Gully and many early wounded were treated there. The man on the right is Corporal R. Bates who later became the Reverend R. Bates of Brisbane. The other two men were original stretcher bearers of the 7th Battalion.
SOURCE:
Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au/collection/H15233
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