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From Dr Martins standpoint.
Kind of cases - mostly dressings under ether.

Not many abdominal cases come in as they are usually so serious they died before getting to hospitals.

Medaille militaire - man who stopped two mitrailleuse motor cars.

Trenches sometimes only 180 yds away.

German snipers creep out of their trenches dressed in khaki when very close to enemy's trenches throw stone in other direction so one is apt to fire at stone which betrays the position of the Allies' trenches. For this they are given the Iron Cross.

Dummy-gun batteries are used by both sides to deceive airmen. At the normal height at which they fly 4000 feet they are impossible to detect.

The flooding of the Yser Valley between Nieuport and Dixmude impeded the German advance considerably