The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Medical orderlies at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenwerck moving patients over duckboard walkways (to avoid the muddy ground) using a two-tiered stretcher holder on wheels. The strecher holder could run along railway tracks leading to the train (seen in the background), which pulled up right at the camp. Here the orderlies are changing direction at a turntable.
TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION NEAR STEENWERCK. NOTE THE USE OF DUCKBOARD WALKWAYS (TO AVOID THE MUDDY GROUND). BESIDE THE MAIN WALKW
TROIS ARBRES, FRANCE. C.1917. TENTS AND BUILDINGS OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION NEAR STEENWERCK. NOTE THE USE OF DUCKBOARD WALKWAYS (TO AVOID THE MUDDY GROUND). THE WHITE BUILDING AT
Buildings used by the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, near Steenwerck. Note the duckboard walkways used to avoid the mud.
France. c. 1916-1917. Tents, with camouflaged roofs, and buildings of a casualty clearing station on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, probably near Amiens. Three soldie
Two stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man from a dressing station run by C Section, 7th Australian Field Ambulance, in Chailak Dere, to the casualty clearing station on the beach at Anzac Cove.
VUNG TAU, VIETNAM, C. 1970. A TEAM OF MEDICAL ORDERLIES CARRIES AN INJURED VIETNAMESE MAN ON A STRETCHER ALONG THE COVERED WALKWAY THAT LEADS TO THE CASUALTY RECEPTION AREA OF 1ST AUSTRALIAN FIELD HOS
