New PDF release: Australian Doctors on the Western Front

By Robert Likeman CSM

a close account of the carnage at the Western entrance from 1916–1918. this can be the 3rd quantity within the sequence ‘Doctors at warfare’ written through Colonel Robert Likeman CSM, lately retired from the publish of Director of military well-being in Canberra. Vols 1 and a couple of have been released via Slouch Hat guides in 2010 and 2012. Likeman presents mini biographies of every of the six hundred+ Australian doctors,and the Australian military clinical Corps devices and hospitals, which served at the Western entrance and within the education institutions within the united kingdom. each one officer’s clinical skills are indexed, in addition to any honours and awards, and diverse photographs.

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