After the Battle of the Dardanelles began, the number of wounded in the field hospital on Lemnos Island increased day by day.

In the entire Aegean region, only Lemnos Island has a field hospital, in addition to the Southern African "Seraphim" hospital ship also docked on Lemnos, Cyprus has a larger field hospital, the wounded on the front line will be sent to Lemnos Island for early treatment, and then sent to Cyprus to recuperate, return to the front line after recovery, or be discharged.

Although Roque has tried his best to provide better medical conditions for the troops, there are still many wounded soldiers who died of their injuries before they could be sent to the hospital, the hospital is overstaffed, some wounded soldiers cannot be treated in time, and some unlucky people have been sent to the rear hospital in Cyprus whose injuries have worsened, and unlike the standards of the US military, these officers and soldiers who died in the hospital are also included in the scope of the dead, so that their pensions will be higher.

Unless US officers and soldiers died on the battlefield and could prove their identity before they could be recognized as killed in battle, they would not receive the pensions they deserved.

In the U.S. military, those who were torn apart by large-caliber shells were the most unlucky, because they could not find their bodies after the war, so they were treated as missing, and the level of bereavement was different.

This would explain why the U.S. military took as many corpses as possible after the war.

Humanitarianism?

Hehe, the soldiers just want to give some comfort to the families of their comrades who died as much as possible, because they hope that after they die in battle, their comrades will do the same.

The situation at the field hospital on the island of Lemnos is terrible.

Before the outbreak of the battle, Roque had sent medicines and supplies to Lemnos as much as possible, the military doctors in the local garrison had come to Europe, and many doctors in the public hospitals in southern Africa had been urgently called up, even so, after the outbreak of the battle, the field hospitals were still in a state of extreme shortage of manpower, many wounded soldiers could not be treated in a timely and effective manner, and some injuries that could have been better treated were treated as more serious conditions, and some soldiers were injured in arms or legs. If there was enough time and medicine, it would have been possible to perform more sophisticated surgeries to save the limbs of the wounded, but in field hospitals, because there were not enough medical resources, they could only be amputated simply and rudely.

Because of this issue, the doctors of the field hospital have had many disputes.

"Mr. Dean, we can't treat these young people in such a rough way, some of them are not yet twenty years old, and life has just begun, and we should provide them with the best possible treatment, instead of just such a simple and rude amputation, why should we be recruited from southern Africa and hired some butchers and carpenters to do the job." Dylan Brown, an attending physician at Saraland State Hospital in Los Angeles, performed only two surgeries in one morning, saving both patients from their thighs, but at the same time, Dylan Brown's colleagues handled at least 10 surgeries.

The director of the field hospital, Ivan, is a veteran, the name sounds like a Slav, but it's not, Ivan is a standard Chinese, once a top student of the Johannesburg Medical School, during the Russo-Japanese War, Ivan followed the military observation mission sent by southern Africa to the Far East, but he was infected in surgery and lost an arm, after returning to southern Africa, Ivan took a back seat and changed to administrative work, which is normal for him in southern Africa.

When Dylan Brown came to see Ivan, Major Ruskin, commander of the security forces sent by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Command, sat in the tent that had been used as a makeshift office.

"Dr. Brown, I understand what you're saying, but it's better to lose a part of your body than to die of blood loss, and I think the soldiers who had their arms sawed off or their thighs were okay with that, and they were lucky compared to the soldiers who died in battle." Ivan is also helpless, if he can, Ivan also wants to provide better medical treatment for the wounded soldiers, but the current situation can't be done, and it is a blessing to be able to save his life.

After the start of the campaign, thousands of wounded were sent to the hospital every day, the troops on the front were losing at a rate of nearly three thousand per day, the Ottoman Fifth Army suffered even more casualties, and now both sides are gritting their teeth and holding on, the winner wins everything, and the loser loses everything.

Although the troops suffered heavy casualties, the first phase of the campaign to attract the main forces of the Fifth Army to the southern part of the Garibaldi Peninsula had been completed, and the next stage was the second phase of the landing behind enemy lines, completely cutting off the retreat of the Ottoman Fifth Army, and the casualties in this stage would be even heavier, because the landing force might be attacked from both sides by the Ottoman Fifth Army and Ottoman reinforcements.

There are still six divisions in Roque's hands that have not yet been put into operation, and the troops preparing to land behind enemy lines are the 501st and 502nd Divisions, the Annan Army, and the 402nd Division, which was urgently transferred from Port Elizabeth.

After the start of the second phase of the operation, Roque will have only two divisions left in reserve, which will be used in the third phase of the campaign, the encirclement and annihilation of the Ottoman Fifth Army.

Compared to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, the Ottoman Fifth Army was even worse, Otto Liman von Zanders had already committed all its reserves, and the worst army was only 1,000 men, and the commander of this force was Mustafa Kimar, and the name was also translated by another way: Mustafa Kemal.

It was during this campaign that Mustafa Kimar became a hero of the Ottoman Empire, and when he ordered his troops to attack, he emphasized: "I am not asking you to attack, I am asking you to send you to your death, and after we die, the other troops and their commanders will continue to fight!" ”

This phrase is a true portrayal of the Battle of the Dardanelles, which later became Kimar's most iconic quote.

"The problem is that they have been taken to the hospital and could have been better cared for, and if you ask the young soldiers whose thighs have been sawed off, they will be confined to wheelchairs and will never be able to run again, they will not think so." Dylan Brown was a doctor at a large public hospital and was not used to the way field hospitals handled wounded soldiers.

"Are you accusing me of disregarding human life?" Ivan was angry, and with this time for the quarrel, he was able to saw his legs again.

It's cruel to say that, it should be: another life could be saved.

It's a lot better.

Before Dylan Brown could speak, Major Ruskin finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"Gentlemen, now is not the time to quarrel, we all need to calm down—" Ruskin was also tormented, he wanted to save more soldiers' lives, but at the same time he didn't want to see too many seriously injured people with severe physical disabilities after the war, which would be a huge burden for any country.

To put it mildly, the physically disabled seriously wounded are more troublesome for the country than the direct death in battle, and for the soldiers who died in battle, a one-time payment of a pension is enough, but for the disabled soldiers, the government with a little conscience will take care of them for a lifetime.

According to this standard, there is no conscience in the current country, except for southern Africa, the wounded soldiers cannot be effectively cared for after the war, the disability pension paid to them by the government cannot afford their livelihood at all, and many wounded soldiers simply commit suicide in order not to become a burden to their families.

This is much better in southern Africa, where there are different standards of bereavement pensions for the wounded, and if the wounded want to work, the major businesses in Nyasaland are happy to provide them with the work they can

In Nyasaland, salaries paid by businesses to disabled soldiers can be used as tax deductions.

"Dr. Brown, I know that you are a responsible doctor, and it is the duty of a good doctor to take responsibility for your patients—Dean Ivan, this problem is very easy to solve, Dr. Brown is very skilled and conscientious in his work, why not transfer Dr. Brown to the third treatment group-" Major Ruskin made a very feasible suggestion.

Although Roque didn't want to admit it, in the field hospital on Lemnos Island, the care of the wounded was also graded.

The Limnos hospital did not admit ordinary doctors at all, as the field hospital in Paris did, but it was undeniable that officers could enjoy better medical care than ordinary soldiers at the Limnos field hospital.

In order to provide different standards of service for different groups of wounded, the doctors of the Limnos Field Hospital were divided into several medical groups, the third of which was dedicated to officers.

Hearing Major Ruskin's advice, Ivan's eyes immediately lit up.

Dylan Brown works hard and meticulously, so he happens to work in the third group with strict medical requirements, which is to make the best use of his talents.

A dispute was resolved into invisibility, Dylan Brown threw himself into the busy medical work again, Ivan was still having a headache for coordinating medical supplies and medical personnel, the security forces of the field hospital were not idle, the Ottoman Fifth Army could not threaten Lemnos Island, the officers and soldiers of the security forces were busy transferring the wounded and carrying supplies, next to the field hospital was the camp of the logistics personnel, and there were more than a dozen steaming cauldrons in the center of the camp, which were boiling used bandages and medical equipment, which were being disinfected by the logistics personnel.

Many bandages still have blood stains on them, and they are not too clean, which is understandable, and this is also the case in Nyasaland, where bandages can be reused, of course, under the premise of strict disinfection.

Most of the wounded who had been treated in the early stage had to be sent to Cyprus to recuperate, and the passenger ships that transported the wounded were not every day, and the wounded waiting to be transported were temporarily placed in a camp next to the pier, next to the camp was a huge cemetery with no eye in sight, and in front of the cemetery there were a dozen huge stone tablets, some stonemasons were carving letters, and the stone tablets were densely engraved with people's names.