Red Cross personnel carry the wounded away from a shell-swept hospital in Ypres in Belgium during World War I.
This contemporary illustration shows Red Cross people carrying the wounded away from a shell-swept hospital in Ypres in Belgium during World War I. A drawing by Frank Dadd, from a description furnished by a wounded officer, one of those saved by the hospital corps. A dressing station had been established in a village behind the British lines in France and when it was filled with wounded, German batteries began to rain shells on it. The wounded were hastily moved farther to the rear, but a number were killed, as were several Red Cross men. The battles around Ypres, where the Germans made a powerful attack on the Allied lines, cost the British dearly.
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