Joshua Levine

You know, you might, you get, at the regimental, the first one, you get triage.

some morphine and then more could be done for you.

The Thomas splint.

I don't know if you've heard of this Thomas splint, you know, this extraordinary development where, you know, if you had a femur injury, it was really a death sentence before this, you know, you would be carried and you'd have the ends of the bones against each other.

The pain would be astonishing and you would lose so many people to, to, to, to, to gangrene and to, to, to, to whatever else.

This was a splint.

It would keep the leg steady and it meant that people could be carried long distances and they could live.

Incredible development.

It was actually pre-war, but it was perfected at this time.

And this was all part of the medical system that would allow you

to be taken further back as was necessary until you could actually be operated on.

Now, don't get me wrong.

The purpose of all this was to bring you back into action as quickly as possible.

You know, this wasn't, you know, to give people a nice bit of rest and

But having said that, it was done well.

And a lot of people ended up, you know, back in England with with honorable discharges.

I've just found recently a fantastic story of a man who was sent all the way back, you know, in great pain, ended up in a hospital.

in England.

And he was visited every day by one of these sort of do good, do good women, sort of, you know, a certain class who visit him.

And she kept asking him, where were you hurt?