PRIVATE FRANK NOLAN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THE GREAT WAR MEDICAL SERVICES 1 MEDICAL SERVICES 2 AMBULANCE TRAIN MILITARY HOSPITALS
WAR AND MEDICINE WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL CLEAR GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER CBE DSO '
THE MEDICAL MEMORIES ROADSHOW
‘To understand where we are today
We have to know where we have come from’
Bricknell M, The Evolution of casualty evacuation in the British Army in the 20th Century (Part 2)
1918 to 1945, BMJ Military Health 2002;148:314-322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-148-03-21
Acknowledgements
This project was supported by a short-term research fellowship in the history of medicine from the Wellcome Trust. I am grateful to Lt Col AN Williams RAMC for his support in developing this paper and I am also extremely grateful to Capt (Ret'd) P Starling and the staff of the ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES Museum for their support.
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