3 Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS)

• Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS)
•  Often dealt with critical injuries
•  Set up in buildings such as factories and schools, often near a railway line
•  Triage system – men were divided into 3 groups: o The walking wounded could be patched up and sent back to the fighting.
• o Those needing hospital treatment were transferred to a Base Hospital.
• o Those who had no chance of survival were made comfortable, but medical resources were not spent on them.