He describes World War One as being "a good war for medicine" with many advances in the field over the four-year conflict. "The war saw a huge amount of innovative work on rehabilitation.

Medicine, in World War I, made major advances in several directions. The war is better known as the first mass killing of the 20th century—with an estimated 10 million military deaths alone ...

How the horrors of World War One led to medical advances and improved co-ordination of health services at home.

WWI is a world war at museum in Missouri Rehabilitation medicine was thus seen as a way to radically overhaul the country’s veteran-welfare system.

Learn more about the life of Joseph Medicine Crow, the last Crow Indian to become a war chief.

In 2004, at the age of 57, former medical officer Edward Horvath rejoined the military as a combat physician and saw three tours of duty.

As the centenary of the start of World War One draws nearer, BBC Wales is exploring how core roles in the modern British Army were first developed during the conflict.

An army first responder compares his modern role on the battlefield to that of stretcher bearers in World War One.