bandages and dressings

[gwalchmai]

Does anyone have any pictures and or sizes of the dressing/bandage packs kept in the field medical companion and field surgical haversack. They are described thus -  

 

Bandages, loose woven, compressed 3 in wide 12 Bandages, triangular, compressed 4 Bandages, loose woven, compressed, 3 in	12
Bandages, triangular Gauze, Double Cyanide, compressed, in 2 ½ yard packets  15 yards	4

[gwalchmai]

the pics were excellent, but as they are drawings I cannot make out the packaging and wording on the bandage items

[seaJane]

Might also be worth checking the Wellcome images library https://wellcomelibrary.org/search-the-catalogues/search-images

 

 

[gwalchmai]

No joy there. Im waiting for some news from the army medic museum but it is astonishing that I cannot seem to find anything on the web :). Non British stuff yes, field and shell dressings yes, even double cyanide gauze but no joy with bog standard army bandages

 

[seaJane]

I used to have a field dressing in my desk filing cabinet but suspect that it was WW2....

[gwalchmai]

Shame

 

[Sepoy]

On 12/16/2017 at 12:21, seaJane said:

I used to have a field dressing in my desk filing cabinet but suspect that it was WW2....

I did not realise that working in a Library was so dangerous

 

[seaJane]

You'd be surprised...

[gwalchmai]

Now it says the field companion is hide covered - which I assume disappears as the war gets going. But hide covered what? I have seen pics of ones that are canvas covered metal boxes and some that claim to be ww1 but are wicker covered with canvas - thoughts?

[Wexflyer]

Trivia: Gamgee apparently inspired the name of the "Lord of the Rings" character...

[gwalchmai]

Got those, but thank you for looking