WOUNDS SUSTAINED IN THE TRENCHES OF FRANCE AND FLANDERS WERE FILTHY
British front line at Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme.
Most wounds were caused by high explosive shellfire and machine gun bullets and were contaminated by clothing, excrement and metallic fragments. Unexploded shells are found every year in the fields and remain potentially dangerous.
Thousands of soldiers died in the opening months of the Great War from SEPSIS or from GAS GANGRENE because of delay in effective treatment.
Unexploded shells are found every year in the fields and remain potentially dangerous.
Thousands of soldiers died in the opening months of the Great War from SEPSIS or from GAS GANGRENE because of delay in effective treatment.