1943 DEFENCE: World War II: Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa and Sicily

Date: 23rd August 1943

Location: SICILY N. AFRICA

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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Red Cross and Union Jack flags flying PAN to GV of hospital camp, sandhills in background

Red Cross ambulances and casualties arriving

Italian prisoners carrying stretcher

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PAN casualties in beds in marquee

Wounded soldier lying on bed

Patient being X-rayed

Close up X-ray plate

Nurses taking sample of blood from patient's thumb

Close up pressing blood out of thumb on to piece of glass

Doctor at work in microscopic tent and Captain Marion Ross looking through microscope

Close up Ross looking through microscope

Two dispensers at work

Wide shot patients in hospital beds in marquee

ITALY: Sicily:

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Medical officers examining children

British soldier weighing crying child and calling out weight

Medical officer writing down weight of baby

Medical officer listening to heartbeat of child held by mother

Close up man listening to heartbeat of baby

British soldier and Medical officer playing with babies

Close up child looking into camera

Medicine and Health; Military - Active; Royal Army Medical Corps; Babies; Occupied Countries; Military - Injured

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