With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt, credited to Tickner Edwardes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt by Tickner Edwardes. Read in English by Steve C Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations within all areas of the conflict. With the Great War continuing unabated and the battlefront extending through Europe into the Middle East and beyond, a rapid increase in military medical support facilities and infrastructure was urgently implemented to handle the ever increasing number of wounded, maimed and sick troops evacuated from the combat zone that needed to receive urgent medical and life-saving care. Commandeering and requisitioning suitable buildings and facilities for the purpose, the British and Allied forces increased the number of hospital beds available from just a few hundred to many thousands. But these were barely sufficient to cope, when you consider that within a few days of the first fateful landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in April 1915, the wounded began to pour into Egypt. In the first ten days alone no fewer than 16,000 cases were landed and distributed among the hospitals ashore. Published in 1918, this book is the personal memoir of Tickner Edwardes who was an operating theatre orderly based in Egypt during the First World War. In it, he brings his uniquely perceptive and eloquent writing style to document the roles and responsibilities undertaken by the R.A.M.C. in Egypt to maintain the health, welfare and well-being of all personnel in whatever field of operations they were engaged in. - Summary by Steve C

Recording facts

• Recording title: With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt
• Author credits: Tickner Edwardes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 11:04:16

Catalogue topics

• Great Britain
• English
• First World War
• Army
• World War
• the great war
• royal army medical corps
• 1914-1918 -- personal narratives

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:02
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Retrospect — 25:06
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - Egypt And The Great War - Part 1 — 45:22
4. 03 - Chapter 2 - Egypt And The Great War - Part 2 — 36:50
5. 04 - Chapter 3 - ''The Long, Long Way To Achi Baba'' — 36:58
6. 05 - Chapter 4 - The R.A.M.C. In Desert Warfare — 29:25
7. 06 - Chapter 5 - Kantara And Katia — 38:47
8. 07 - Chapter 6 - The Defence Of Egypt In The West — 17:56
9. 08 - Chapter 7 - The Sinai Desert Campaign. The Battle of Romani — 33:35
10. 09 - Chapter 8 - El Arish Maghdaba Rafa — 28:26
11. 10 - Chapter 9 - El Arish And After — 19:09
12. 11 - Chapter 10 - Camp Sanitation And Conservancy — 49:13
13. 12 - Chapter 11 - Epidemic Diseases — 46:40
14. 13 - Chapter 12 - Field And Base Laboratories — 17:43
15. 14 - Chapter 13 - Army Dental Surgery In Egypt — 18:21
16. 15 - Chapter 14 - The Work Of The Mustapha Reception Station, Alexandria — 14:15
17. 16 - Chapter 15 - The Medical Advisory Committee For The Near East — 30:46
18. 17 - Chapter 16 - Military General Hospitals In Egypt - Part 1 — 51:08
19. 18 - Chapter 16 - Military General Hospitals In Egypt - Part 2 — 52:32
20. 19 - Chapter 17 - The Egyptian Labour Corps : Its Medical Organisation Under The R.A.M.C. — 55:28
21. 20 - Chapter 18 - ''In Arduis Fidelis'' — 12:34

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