TENDING THE WOUNDS: MEDICINE IN WWI
All day
DON’T MISS......
Sunday, October 16: 12 – 4 pm
12.30 pm Fighting Fit
Join a battalion Medical Officer as he makes his rounds of the trenches and gives instructions to new recruits
on their chief duty in the front line: keeping fit to fight.
1.00 pm Wounded at War
An injured soldier’s survival could depend on prompt medical treatment but with so many wounded, medics
had to make difficult decisions. How did they make them? Find out in this interactive demonstration.
1.30 pm Public Heath
in the Trenches
Dr Beverly Bergman, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Public Health at the University of Glasgow , talks
about the discomforts and deprivations in the trenches and how the men stayed healthy.
2.00 pm Sloggett Saves
Scottish Somme
Shellshock Scapegoat!
After losing more than half their comrades on the first day of the Somme, what was left of the 11th Battalion
Border Regiment refused to go over the top again. Brigadier Timothy Finnegan describes how Pollok medic
Lt George N Kirkwood recognized they were suffering from shell shock and paid a price.
3.00 pm The Scottish Women’s
Hospital
Ailsa Clarke brings to life the incredible story of Britain’s first field hospital staffed by women. Fighting
prejudice at home before women had the right to vote, Dr Elsie Inglis’s ‘Amazons’ served across the globe improving medical techniques, changing attitudes and making history.
3.30 pm Carrying, caring
and comforting
Join Scots in the Great War Living History Group as they train men for one of the most dangerous jobs in
the war - that of stretcher-bearer - teaching them stretcher drill and basic first aid.
12:00 - 1:30 & 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Ask a WW1 Soldier....
12.30 - 1.30 & 3.30 - 4.00 pm
Tending the Wounds
All day
The Second Battlefield
All day
Modelling Transport
Living history groups Scots in the
Great War and the Pickelhaube
Pals occupy the trenches and
answer your questions about life
as a soldier.
An exhibition of film, images and
text showing how in the face of new
injury and illness on an industrial
scale, new equipment and
techniques ended up saving
thousands of lives.
Using display and handling
kit, find out about the fight
against shock, infection and
blood loss and the medical
innovations that are still
saving lives today.
Charles Mawer dislays
models that tell the story of
War Department light
railways in war and peace.