· Wounded “The Long Journey Home from The Great War” (Talk) Articles. Jun 26 Wounded “The Long Journey Home from The Great War” By. Emily Mayhew. Was on the 25th January in The Kincaid Gallery at The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum. · Being injured was one of the most common experiences of World War I, according to Emily Mayhew's book, Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War [Bodley Head/Random House, ; Guardian Author: Grrlscientist. As Emily Mayhew writes in her introduction to Wounded: The Long Journey Home From The Great War ‘ the first soldier arrived on their operating tables and they realised everything they knew about treating casualties was useless’. Deliberately eschewing a conventional academic approach, Mayhew has chosen the narrative non-fiction genre for.
Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back to Blighty. Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War Paperback - International Edition, August 5, by Emily Mayhew (Author) out of 5 stars ratings. This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One. A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The injuries on the battlefield were unlike anything those in the medical field had ever.
Emily Mayhew Was on the 25th January in The Kincaid Gallery at The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum. “Being wounded was one of the most common experiences of the Great War; on the Western Front almost every other British soldier could expect to become a casualty with injuries ranging from light wounds to permanent life changing disability”. Being injured was one of the most common experiences of World War I, according to Emily Mayhew's book, Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War [Bodley Head/Random House, ; Guardian. Summary. Dr Mayhew is a military medical historian specialising in the study of severe casualty, its infliction, treatment and long-term outcomes in 20 th and 21 st century warfare. She is historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering, working primarily with the researchers and staff of the Centre for Blast Injury Studies.
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