The Care of Casualties. Part 1. WW 1.

Or how we learn so much from an unmitigated catastrophe.

Sources: Reddit and Wikipedia. Those guys on the right don’t look too badly off. But they might take a sudden turn for the worse and be dead within a few days from infection. ‘British’ casualties (could be Canadian, Australian, New-Zealander, South African) helped along by at least one German PoW who, because he is using a stick for a cane, might be injured himself. Please note how much the French, in addition to having had a swathe of their country litterally destroyed, lost 4,3% of their population. A catastrophe from which they never fully recovered IMO.

Funny that. I was just thinking about how NATO standards (led by the US) had kept alive so many wounded soldiers (and a lot of Afghan civilians — I dunno about Iraqis: Canada did not “do” Iraq), soldiers who would have died in previous wars before getting to any medical facility because of the severity of…