RAMC Flashcards
What was the RAMC?
It is the Royal army medical corpse. And they moved casualties from front lines, using stretcher barriers through sereis of relay posts to a place with medical posts, or moved by river, road or rail
What is the ‘chain of evacuation ’?
A system to move wounded men to medical areas
This included:
1 Regimental aid post
2 advanced dressing station
3 casualty cleaning station
4 Base hospital
What is the role of the regimental aid post?
was set up a few metres behind the front lines.
-It gave first aid and they carried men who needed treatment by stretcher barriers to the advanced dressing station
What was the role of the advanced dressing station?
They were tents 350 metres behind RAP
Collected injured men by horse ambulance
Moved soldiers to casualty clearing stations
What was the role of the casualty clearing station?
They were surgical medical wards in wooden huts. Where men were treated up to four weeks using mobile X-rays (by Marie curie)
They were then either sent to hospitals or the front lines.
What was the role of the base hospital?(2pts)
-They were specialised hospitals which treated patients until they were fit enough to be sent to the front lines. -The hospitals took up to 400 patients as-well as having X-ray departments.
What is a FANY?
They are the first aid nursing yeomanry corps. They moved wounded med between base hospitals, medical posts and trains.
We’re trained in first aid, veterinary skills, signalling and driving.
They were useful for transporting wounded men and supplies(such as a mobile soup kitchin, and organising concerts for troops)
What are field ambulances and who worked for them?
They moved wounded men between base hospital, medical posts, trains and barges. Also moved supplies from coastal ports to front lines
First aid nursing yeomanry corps had to ambulance convoys “Calais and st. Omer
