With the R. A. M. C. in Egypt

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...to be brought and properly interred under the direction of an R.A.M.C. inspector. The same Sanitary unit of the R.A.M.C. did good work of a like kind during the battle of Romani, to which area it had by then moved up. This battle was fought in extremely hot weather. In the engagement a great number of horses, mules and camels were killed, and their carcases littered the ground in situations where, if not immediately dealt with, they could not have failed to constitute a danger to the health of the troops. While, therefore, our Field Ambulances were caring for the human killed and wounded, our Sanitary squads were ceaselessly busy in this other direction. The work of seeking out these dead animals and putting them underground out of harm's way, seems to have been a gargantuan task, taxing to the utmost the strength and endurance of our men. It was carried on literally day and night, and often under heavy shell-fire. The difficulty of the work was greatly accentuated by the fact that no native assistance whatever could be obtained, as all the personnel of the Egyptian Labour Corps had been ordered out of the zone of action. Another incident of this engagement, with which our men had to cope, was the destruction by enemy shell-fire of a great many of our latrine appliances. Pending the arrival of new supplies from the Base, all sorts of expedient measures had to be installed for the maintenance of sanitary order. At this time, too, Turkish prisoners were coming in in huge crowds. Every one of these had to be regarded as the potential source of a cholera epidemic and treated accordingly. All their excreta were systematically dosed with strong antiseptics, then deeply buried with quicklime. At a later period, the men of the Division to which our typical Sanitary...