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active army ADMINISTRATION AND DISTRIBUTION ambulance company ambulance sections army corps Army Medical Corps AUSTRIA-HUNGARY battalion bearer companies captain combatant units command commissioned officers deuxième classe DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONNEL district division drivers transport troops duties enlisted personnel evacuation hospitals Feldshers field army field hospitals garrison hospitals headquarters Hoju home territory hospital corps hospital trains infantry Landsturm lazaret lieutenant colonel line officer lines of communication litter bearers medical department military hospitals militia noncommissioned officers number of medical organized patients PEACE ESTABLISHMENT personnel consists Pharmacien pharmacist pital première classe Principal Medical Officer privates medical corps quartermaster rank of colonel rank of lieutenant rank of major Red Cross Society regimental medical reserve medical officers rest stations Royal Army Medical sanitats truppe Second lieutenant SERVICE WITH COMBATANT sick and wounded similar units Sisters of Mercy staff standing army Territorial Army Territorial Force train troops transport detachment transportation consists voluntary aid wagons zone of advance
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Page 23 - (one-year volunteers), 688 and are passed into the reserve of the standing army after one year of service with the colors. The Landsturm is composed of (a) men between the ages of 17 and 20; (b) those between the ages of 39 and 45; (c) men from the Ersatz reserve; and (d) men who are for some reason exempt from regular service. THE STANDING ARMr.
Page 39 - ... lieutenant) are obtained from students of pharmacy who are doing their period of service with the colors and who have passed an examination entitling them to this grade. After passing into the reserve these men form a large body of men available for pharmacist service in war. ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS. Officers and officials belonging to the services of administration, pay, and accounts are detailed for service in the medical department. Their services are similar to those of administration and...
Page 29 - ... the advanced supply depots. These trains have no fixed personnel, but as a rule are provided with two medical officers, two noncommissioned officers, and 12 attendants for each 100 patients. Ordinary passenger coaches are also utilized for carrying wounded not requiring more elaborate transportation. Medical officers do not accompany these trains, but they supervise the loading and unloading. Attendance en route is furnished by voluntary aid societies. HOME TERRITORY. All garrison hospitals in...
Page 40 - Army, but sisters of the order of St. Vincent de Paul are employed in the larger military hospitals.
Page 46 - In addition to these men who have been trained hi the medical service, four men from each company are detailed as litter bearers. The total enlisted personnel for medical service in a regiment is 15 noncommissioned officers as medical assistants and 48 privates as litter bearers. In the smaller units, such as a battery of artillery, company of engineers, etc., there are no litter bearers, but one noncommissioned officer of the medical service is on duty with each medical officer. FIELD MEDICAL UNITS....
Page 10 - England comprise (a) the regular army; (£>) the territorial forces; (c) the Indian force; (d) militia forces in various colonies. REGULAR ARMY. The Regular Army is organized into an expeditionary force, serving in the British Isles, and a colonial force, serving in the various colonies and India. The peace strength of this army is : British Isles 134, 339 Colonies (other than India) 45,215 India 75, 884 Total 255, 438 TERRITORIAL FORCE.
Page 40 - This body has no administrative power but acts as a consultative or advisory medical board. The details of army medical organization as a whole are in the hands of a medical officer attached to the general staff at army headquarters, while the more direct administration and command are vested in the general officers commanding army corps and their principal medical officers. At each corps headquarters there is a Principal Medical Officer (colonel), with one captain and one official of administration...
Page 29 - Honved, or National Army of Hungary; (c) the Gemeinsames Heer, or common army -of both countries; (d) the Landsturm, or second reserve of Austria and Hungary. All males between the ages of 19 and 42 are liable to military service, and it is decided by lot whether such service will be in a national army or in the common army. Actual service begins at the age of 21 and lasts for 12 years. Men drawing assignment to the common army serve three years with the colors and seven years in the reserve of that...
Page 49 - Service is obligatory upon all males between the ages of 17 and 40. The period of service is regulated as follows: Gueneki : Three years, save for the infantry where men pass the third year under the status of furlough, and in the train, where the service is but six months. Yobi : Four years and four months comprising men coming from Gueneki.
Page 36 - ... either mobile or stationary, and are located where required on lines of travel. They are usually under the charge of civilian personnel. FIELD MEDICAL SUPPLY DEPOT. One supply depot is organized for each field army, but it is composed of a number of army corps units, each with personnel and materiel enabling it to be attached to an army corps and act as an independent unit. These corps units, in addition to stores for replenishing medical materiel expended in the field, contain reserve materiel...