Trench warfare and medicine

Question 1

What does VAD stand for?

Answer 1

Voluntary Aid Attachments

Question 2

What does RAMC stand for?

Answer 2

Royal Army Medical Corps

Question 3

Name two places where RAMC staff worked

Answer 3

They worked at Regimental Aid Posts, Dressing Stations, Casualty Clearing Stations and Base Hospitals.

Question 4

What did the FANY do

Answer 4

In 1916 they were allowed to drive ambulances to transport wounded troops. They also drove supplies to the frontline, provided mobile baths for soldiers and set up cinemas.

Question 5

Another name for a gas mask?

Answer 5

Respirators

Question 6

Name two types of poison gas

Answer 6

Chlorine – death by suffocation.
Phosgene – similar to chlorine but killed soldiers more quickly.
Mustard – burned the skin and also the lungs

Question 7

Explain why infected wounds were highly likely

Answer 7

The trenches were dug into farmland where the soil was full of bacteria because of the manure.

Question 8

What is ‘shrapnel’?

Answer 8

Like bullets