C.A.M.C. with the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War
THE C.A.M.C. WITH THE CANADIAN CORPS DURING THE LAST HUNDRED DAYS OF THE GREAT WAR BY A. E. SNELL, C.M.G., D.S.O., B.A., M.B. COLONEL, ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (Late D.D.M.S. Canadian Army Corps) BASED ON MATERIAL AND MAPS SUPPLIED BY THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE GENERAL STAFF Published by authority of the Hon. E. M. Macdonald, Minister of National Defence Ottawa F. A. ACLAND Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1924 INTRODUCTION Colonel Snell has laid the Medical Service and the Defence Forces of Canada under a great obligation by writing this book. It is a piece of public service which no one is better qualified to know, both from intimate personal knowledge of the events he describes and because official documents, diaries, maps, etc., have all been available to him. The result is an account of the Open Warfare stage of the Great War, the Last Hundred Days, which, in so far as it may reach the general public, will give them a good conception of the problems of the Medical Service in war, of the method by which sick and wounded are cared for, and of the devotion and intelligence with which the duties of all ranks were discharged. From the technical point of view, this book is the first con- tribution made by the Canadian Medical Service to the literature of training. It is full of the kind of experience that will make it valuable, if not exactly as a Manual, yet as a source from which Tactical and Administrative problems can be studied by coming generations of Medical Officers.
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