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- Title
Response of the Australian Medical Services to restoration of mobile warfare on the Western Front in 1918 (part I).
- Authors
Scotland, Thomas
- Abstract
On 21 March 1918, after nearly 4 years of static warfare on the Western Front, German forces launched a massive offensive from the Hindenburg Line against a depleted British Fifth Army. Elite storm troops smashed through British forward and battle zone positions and advanced more than 17 miles in 2 days. By 5 April, the Germans were outside the town of Villers‐Bretonneux, 40 miles from their starting position and 15 miles from the railway junction of Amiens. This paper examines the response of the Australian Medical Services to the restoration of mobile warfare and explains the measures that were put in place to deal with the evacuation of casualties.
- Subjects
AMIENS (France); MILITARY science; MILITARY offensives; RAILROADS; ARMIES
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2019, Vol 89, Issue 10, p1194
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ans.15237