The casualty clearing station

Achiet-le-Grand during WW1

 

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Just after the village was freed, the British army decided to install  a casualty clearing station composed with the 45th and 49th CCS and Achiet-le-Grand became a railhead for the British army.

This casualty clearing station photo was sent to me by Alan Ramsay with permission to use it  (Great war forum)

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These casualty clearing stations worked  until the German spring offensive in March 1918