The Snapshots in Time Collection

Soldier and Medical Orderly in Conversation, France, World War I

Soldier and Medical Orderly in Conversation, France, World War I

A soldier and a medical orderly, identified by his white Red Cross armband, pause for conversation near a damaged building somewhere behind the front lines in France. Stretcher-bearers and medics like the man pictured here moved constantly between the trenches and aid stations, tending to the wounded under some of the most dangerous conditions of the First World War. Project: 218664