WW1 Medicine (1914-1918)

Question 1

THE TRENCH:
What is the area called between the enemy and the friendly trench?

Answer 1

no man’s land

Question 2

THE TRENCH:
What are the three lines of trenches called?

Answer 2

Front line
Support trench
Reserve line

Question 3

THE TRENCH:
Give at least 3 reasons why the terrain of the trenches helped spread infection

Answer 3

water - flooding
mud - fertilised farming fields
rats
hard to collect wounded
craters from artillery

Question 4

BATTLES:
Name 2 bloody battles from WW1

Answer 4

Ypres
Somme - over 1 million casualties / 300,000 dead
Arras
Cambrai

Question 5

NEW WEAPONS:
Name at least 3 new weapons used in WW1

Answer 5

machine gun - 600 rounds per minute
gas - chlorine, mustard
artillery shells = 12 mile range = shrapnel
barbed wire
rifle

Question 6

ILLNESS:
Name at least 3 types of illness common in the WW1 trench

Answer 6

trench fever - infection and lice
trench foot
dysentry
shell shock - Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous (NYDN)

Question 7

TREATMENT:
Give the 5 steps of the evacuation route (getting a wounded soldier out)

Answer 7

1) stretcher bearer
2) regimental aid post
3) field ambulance and dressing station
4) casualty clearing station
5) base hospital

Question 8

PROGRESS:
Give at least 4 ways medicine progressed during WW1

Answer 8

evacuation route developed

nursing professionalised

x rays - mobile

plastic surgery

brain surgery

blood loss - Landsteiner - blood types and storage (blood banks) BEFORE battles

thomas splint - broken legs splinted

infection - sterilising antiseptics

Question 9

SOURCE SKILLS:
What 5 checks should you do on a source to analyse (check) it’s utility (how useful or not it is)

Answer 9

purpose - why was it made?
author - who made it?
nature - what does it show?
date - when was it made?
accuracy - does it fit with your own knowledge?

Question 10

SOURCE SKILLS:
When asked “what source would you use?” what do you need to include about the source?

Answer 10

type - what type of source
date - when was it made
author - who made it
location - where from
about - what about

e.g.
an interview
from 1918
from an infantry Captain
from Somme
about trench foot in his soldiers

Question 11

SOURCE SKILLS:
Give at least 3 words you would use when asked to analyse a source

Answer 11

bias
reliable
useful
less reliable