'Bristol blood donors save a soldier's life in Normandy', June 1944
Photograph, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945) 1944.
This picture, taken at a casualty clearing station in Normandy, shows Major C J Gordon of the Royal Army Medical Corps carrying out an operation on a soldier who had sustained a bullet wound in the abdomen. The wounded soldier was first given a blood transfusion to help him through the operation. The blood, which had been donated at Southmead Hospital in Bristol in the days following the D-Day landings, was flown direct to the front for use in dressing posts and casualty clearing stations.
From a collection of 33 British official photographs relating to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, 1944.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2006-12-98-22
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2006-12-98-22
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