A Nurse or Medic's View of WWI

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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict as a nurse or medic?

Often referred to as non-combatants, the nurses and medics were the first to be called to the battlefields for help, after the battles had begun.

Instructions:

Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

discuss what it was like to be a nurse or medic during this conflict.
go to your team's worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visitied [see below]. If you need a worksheet, click here.
then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to be a nurse or a medic during this conflict?".

Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team's response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question better.

Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!

Be sure to use your BACK button to keep returning to this page!

Visit these sites:

Set #1: in the field

William Yorke Stevenson, Section No. 1, American Ambulance: Diary Excerpts

Read only the first entry, dated 11 July 1916, Dugny

American Expeditionary Force [AEF]

Casualty Handling Procedures

Set #2: Nurses

30,000 US Women were there

Too few doctors...

Volunteer Aid Detachments [items #1 - 4]

Scottish Women's Hospital Unit [items #1 - 3]

Florence Farmborough [items #2-7]

Set #3: day-to-day life for a field medic

The American Field Ambulance Service in France

Personal letters of a driver at the front [1916]

please read the following sections --->

* The Preface

* scroll down to AMERICAN AMBULANCE, June 17th and read until Saturday

* scroll down to PONT-A-MOUSSON, July 2nd plus a little bit farther:

start at the listing Saturday and stop at PONT-A-MOUSSON, July 16th

Bibliography:

medic.gif: Leslie Buswell (ed.). "Illustrations. With the American Ambulance Field Service in France. 1916." Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front. 9 September 1999. University of Kansas. 28 December, 1999. <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~libsite/wwi-www/Buswell/Illus.htm>.
The American Field Ambulance Service: Buswell, Leslie. "With the American Ambulance Field Service in France. 1916." Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front. 9 September 1999. University of Kansas. 28 December, 1999. <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~libsite/wwi-www/Buswell/AAFS1.htm>.
William Yorke Stevenson: Stevenson, W.Y.. "William Yorke Stevenson, American Ambulance 1917-1918." World War I Document Archive. 15 December 1996. Great War Primary Documents Archive, Inc.. 2 January 2000. <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/memoir/stevensn.htm>.
Too few doctors: "The Great War: Interviews." The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century." PBS Online, KCET (Los Angeles) and the BBC. 1 January 2000. <http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/keegan5.html>
Scottish Nurse's: "Women in the First World War." British History 1700 - 1950. Spartacus Educational Internet Encyclopedia. 1 January 2000. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wscot.htm>
Florence Farmborough: "Women in the First World War." British History 1700 - 1950. Spartacus Educational Internet Encyclopedia. 1 January 2000. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wfarmborough.htm>
Volunteer Aid Detachments: "Women in the First World War." British History 1700 - 1950. Spartacus Educational Internet Encyclopedia. 1 January 2000. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnurses.htm>
30,000 Women: "Women in World War I." American Women in Uniform. May 1996. Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Ret).. 1 January 2000. <http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets4.html>.
Casualty Handling Procedures: Friedel, Frank. "AEF Casualty Handling Procedures" The Doughboy Center: The Story of the American Expeditionary Force; The Great War Society. 1998. WWI: Trenches on the Web. 8 January 2000. <http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/lostbatt.htm>.

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