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Dr Emily Mayhew will explore the creation of a specialist stretcher bearer corps on the Western Front, which transformed military medicine into the system that is still in use today.
Dr Emily Mayhew will explore the creation of a specialist stretcher bearer corps on the Western Front, which transformed military medicine into the system that is still in use today. Without these first 'First Responders' we would have no Combat Medical Technicians (CMT), no Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT), even no paramedics in our civilian trauma provision.
Emily will discuss how stretcher bearers, many of whom were conscientious objectors, were everywhere on the Western Front: in the forward trenches waiting for the orders to go over the top, in shell holes and shattered aid posts treating the wounded and avoiding sniper fire, even at the executions of soldiers convicted at courts martial where they had a particular and deeply resented final responsibility.
Dr Emily Mayhew is a military medical historian specialising in the study of severe casualty, its infliction, treatment and long-term outcomes in 20th and 21st century warfare.
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Dr Emily Mayhew | talks |
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Date and Time: |
6 February 2017 at 12:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour |
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Venue: |
Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre |
Organised by: |
National Army Museum |
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Tickets: |
Free |
Available from: |
www.nam.ac.uk |
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