Arras

• Underground hosptial --> underground town

  • November 1916 - > tunnelling under town of Arras
  • 800m of tunnel
  • fully working hospitals near front line, use as a dressing room
  • also Called Thompson‘s Cave ( RAMC officer who put equipment there )
  • Abandoned during Battle of Arras because of Hit by shell destroying water supply
• Equipped =

  • waiting room
  • 700 spaces = stretchers as beds
  • operating theatre
  • Rest station for stretcher bearers
  • montuary - lay out dead
  • electricity and water supply
• Surgeons did more work in the operation theatre than they through

  • 67% wounded returned to front line more quickly / evacuated to Britain