02721cam a22003253u 4500 76295 UtSlPG 20260610134751.0 m cr n 260607r20251918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 19009165 UtSlPG en iso639-1 D501 Montague, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1867-1928 Notes from Calais base, and pictures of its many activities Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-06-14 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Notes from Calais base, and pictures of its many activities by C. E. Montague" is an illustrated historical account written in the World War I era. It portrays the British Army’s base operations around Calais, focusing on how troops are trained, wounded soldiers are cared for, and vast logistical systems—fuel and footwear among them—keep the front supplied. The book first follows reinforcements through intensive finishing courses led by veterans fresh from the trenches: bayonet work, musketry, bombing, night exercises, sandbag-filling, Swedish drill, and rigorous gas-mask training, all captured alongside scenes of embarkation and movement. It then traces the wounded man’s journey from trench to advanced dressing-station, casualty clearing station, and base hospitals, highlighting innovations such as mono-rail trolley stretchers, specialist eye care with powerful magnets, fracture wards with slung beds, canal barges for gentle transport, and fully equipped Red Cross trains. Finally, it turns to the machinery of supply: depôts that manufacture, test, fill, and track petrol tins with French civilian labor; and a vast cobbler’s shop that sorts, rebuilds, and reissues thousands of boots daily through tightly organised, assembly-line repair—wasting nothing, even turning leather offcuts into laces and heels into fuel. Together the text and photographs offer a clear, practical portrait of the disciplined systems and human effort sustaining the army behind the lines. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1918 World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Calais https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76295 117020 117020