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In the British Army and other Commonwealth militaries, a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) is a military medical facility behind the front lines that is used to treat wounded soldiers. A CCS would usually be located just beyond the range of enemy artillery and often near transportation facilities (e.g., a railway).
A new Visitor Centre at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery was opened in September 2012. It is a modern design of glass, steel and concrete that is used for the briefing of groups before they enter the cemetery. There is also a presentation of the history of Remy Farm at Lijssenthoek and the casualty clearing stations once located there. [9]
Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, located near Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium, was established in July 1917 to accommodate casualties from the Battle of Passchendaele. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, the cemetery contains 558 burials, including 512 from the United Kingdom, 11 from Australia, 6 from Canada, and 1 from undivided India.
The 4th Casualty Clearing Station began and used the cemetery from June 1915 to October 1916 while stationed at Beauval. From October to December 1916, the cemetery was used by the 47th Casualty Clearing Station. A small number of burials were created in the cemetery as late as March 1918.
French plot: civilian casualties of Gerbeviller; German and French headstones and tombs: le Petit Donon; German military cemetery: Apremont; German military cemetery: Chestres & French national necropolis: Chestres; German military cemetery: Consenvoye; German military cemetery: Gobessart; German military cemetery: Hohrod-Bärenstall
The cemetery was established in February 1917 as the New French Military Cemetery. It was used by the 39th and 13th Casualty Clearing Stations for much of early 1917, and by the 41st Stationary Hospital from May 1917 to March 1918, when the area was lost in the 1918 German spring offensive.
1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) – Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916; Rouen, France to 1918; then Sutton Veny, England [1] 2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915.
The First World War had Casualty Clearing Station, an advance unit, that was close to the front line. Being near the front these stations were often bombed or hit by artillery. In one such incident in May 1918 a number of nurses were killed when the building they were tending wounded was bombed by Imperial German Aircraft.