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Description
Mr. Meiklejohn describes how wounded men would arrive at the casualty clearing station, be assessed and treated or sent further behind the lines.
Transcription
When a man was wounded he was picked up by the medical orderlies in his unit, seen by his regiment medical officer and then evacuated. And they had jeeps fixed up to carry stretchers so you seen he was assessed and he's only two or three miles down the line, he came to us. And one medical officer was assigned as a triage officer and he was a well trained chap, could assess the situation. That officer I think had probably as big a responsibility as anybody in making those decisions as to who would go where. If you, if it was not serious and he was just hit in the extremities, like arm, we'd send him back farther down to the casualty training station. But we kept the tough ones; the abdominal wounds, the chest wounds and the, where the legs had been fractured, compounded fractures. And so the type of surgery we were doing was pretty extensive surgery.