Here is a photograph of the Advanced Dressing Station - RR Station located in the Vimy Sector.
It is hard to image this bombed out structure being a house of refuge for wounded soldiers; but during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, hundreds of stretcher bearers, medics, and captured Germans POWS, would process wounded soldiers in this building.
Stretcher bearers would go around the battle field and retrieve wounded men and bring the soldiers to the ADS to be assessed, bandaged (and at times provide amputation ) and receive basic medical care before being sent further back for more complex medical treatment.
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