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For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely from where they were injured to aid posts and beyond. At the same time, land...
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oapen-20.500.12657-485382021-05-12T00:50:29Z Chapter 7 The Long Carry Meyer, Jessica first world war; landscapes; British stretcher bearers; masculine service identity bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWN First World War For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely from where they were injured to aid posts and beyond. At the same time, landmarks could assist bearers in navigating the landscape they worked in, enabling these men to develop particular skills in direction-finding. This chapter uses the diaries and memoirs of British stretcher bearers to examine experiences of carrying in a range of wartime landscapes. In exploring how different landscapes shaped the labour that bearers undertook and the physical and embodied nature of the bearer’s relationship with the landscape, it interrogates the masculine status of these men as non-combatant servicemen to uncover some of the relationship between landscape and masculine service identity in wartime. 2021-05-11T11:30:22Z 2021-05-11T11:30:22Z 2018 chapter 9783319894102 9783030077631 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48538 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK538127.pdf Springer Nature Landscapes of the First World War 10.1007/978-3-319-89411-9_7 10.1007/978-3-319-89411-9_7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e4a11d3a-62e2-4b85-b1a1-57025b61c3f0 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319894102 9783030077631 Wellcome 17 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access |
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For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely from where they were injured to aid posts and beyond. At the same time, landmarks could assist bearers in navigating the landscape they worked in, enabling these men to develop particular skills in direction-finding. This chapter uses the diaries and memoirs of British stretcher bearers to examine experiences of carrying in a range of wartime landscapes. In exploring how different landscapes shaped the labour that bearers undertook and the physical and embodied nature of the bearer’s relationship with the landscape, it interrogates the masculine status of these men as non-combatant servicemen to uncover some of the relationship between landscape and masculine service identity in wartime. |
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