This is an example of an Army Field Medical Card, Army Form W.3118, and these often do not survive with other service records. It was completed when a man was admitted as a casualty to a Field Ambulance and would have accompanied him on his journey to the casualty clearing station and then base hospital if he survived. (Catalogue ref: MH106/2139)
Transcript
[Front of card-right side]
Army Form W.3118
FIELD MEDICAL CARD
No. ——— Rank LIEUT
Name WARDEN A.J.
Unit 11th LEICESTERS
Battle Casualty Accidentally Wounded Sick
(Strike out description which does not apply)
No. of F.A. [Field Ambulance] 17
Date of admission 17/5/18
F.A. diagnosis Shell gas (W) Yellow X
… R.A.M.C.
Additional notes to be written on back of card.
C.C.S. diagnosis (if altered from above)
___________________________________________________________________Base Hospital diagnosis (alterations or additions)
[Left side of card]
A.T. Serum [anti-tetanus]
Dose and date 1st
2nd
FIELD AMBULANCE NOTES
Morphia
Dose and time
Date of wound or onset of illness 16/5/18
Religion C .of E. [Church of England]
Reverse of field card
Date of entry and medical unit admitting must be recorded immediately on admission. Brief clinical notes to be added later and signed by M.O.[Medical Officer]
Stamp:
2nd Canadian
17th May 1918
Casualty Clearing Station
No. of C.C.S.
Date of entry
Majority of symptoms are those rather of the new arsene compound [used in the gas] rather than mustard gas [sulfur based gas]
Base 4
- G. Wood
…
[Left side of card] [Stamp]
No. of Hospital No.5 B.R.C. [British Red Cross] Hospital, no 1913
Date of entry 18.5.18
Eyes [very] painful, impossible to open.
22/5/18
[Very] much improved, complains of pain left axillary region [armpit]
…