Society
Casualty clearing station
A field hospital a few miles behind the front, where wounded men were sorted by urgency, operated on and then sent on to base hospitals. It was the center of the system of triage that saved many lives.
Mentioned in
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §8 Medicine: Triage, Transfusion and Faces