How Many Medics Died In Ww1. Of these, dysentery (an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood and mucus) was the principal cause of sickness in the mediterranean expeditionary forces. Treating those casualties was a gargantuan task, and the work of the ramc serves as a good example of life on the western front.

Treating those casualties was a gargantuan task, and the work of the ramc serves as a good example of life on the western front. In honour of the release of our first tranche of 30,000 military hospital records from the 51 st field ambulance, part of a collection of 1.5 million records to be transcribed over the next two years from the national archive’s “military hospitals admissions and discharge registers wwi. How many original anzacs survived the war?