Taking care of casualties was a huge deal in the first World War. Officers and field aid members would carry "field dressings" and painkillers to wounded soldiers until professional medical members could get to them and transport them to medical facilities, some of which were as basic as tents. Soldiers that were brought to medical stations were evaluated and sorted into a category of injured, based on how much attention they needed. The seriously wounded were taken to a "casualty clearing station", which consisted of multiple tents where different medical procedures were performed, including surgery. They were then transferred to hospitals, where they were monitored by nurses, but the transportation there was not always the fastest.
One of the sad things about the trench warfare was that someone who was injured on No Man's Land would be abandoned there until nightfall, when people could safely go there to retrieve them, but many soldiers died from their wounds at that point. In addition, with all the shortages in medical supplies, many of the wounded simply couldn't get treated in time. This ultimately led to many long and painful deaths.
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This sounds terrible, it shows how bad and nasty WWI was. It seems like if you got injured or hurt badly then you were basically dead. Also, were vaccines and spreading germs known things back then, since if not then i feel like a lot more people would die from disease instead of fighting.
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