Project Gutenberg 2025-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 168 Montague, C. E. (Charles Edward) 1867 1928 Montague, Charles Edward 19009165 Notes from Calais base, and pictures of its many activities $aLondon :$bT. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., $c1918. Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Notes from Calais base, and pictures of its many activities by C. E. Montague" is an illustrated historical account written in the World War I era. It portrays the British Army’s base operations around Calais, focusing on how troops are trained, wounded soldiers are cared for, and vast logistical systems—fuel and footwear among them—keep the front supplied. The book first follows reinforcements through intensive finishing courses led by veterans fresh from the trenches: bayonet work, musketry, bombing, night exercises, sandbag-filling, Swedish drill, and rigorous gas-mask training, all captured alongside scenes of embarkation and movement. It then traces the wounded man’s journey from trench to advanced dressing-station, casualty clearing station, and base hospitals, highlighting innovations such as mono-rail trolley stretchers, specialist eye care with powerful magnets, fracture wards with slung beds, canal barges for gentle transport, and fully equipped Red Cross trains. Finally, it turns to the machinery of supply: depôts that manufacture, test, fill, and track petrol tins with French civilian labor; and a vast cobbler’s shop that sorts, rebuilds, and reissues thousands of boots daily through tightly organised, assembly-line repair—wasting nothing, even turning leather offcuts into laces and heels into fuel. Together the text and photographs offer a clear, practical portrait of the disciplined systems and human effort sustaining the army behind the lines. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240618121409montague 1918 GB Reading ease score: 63.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Calais D501 Text Category: History - British Category: History - Warfare 74598 2025-07-30T07:30:11.303765 text/html 48626 2025-06-14T22:10:00 text/html 8585376 2025-07-30T07:30:16.570755 application/epub+zip 8582866 2025-07-30T07:30:13.206781 application/epub+zip 161131 2025-07-30T07:30:12.128723 application/epub+zip 8642358 2025-07-30T07:30:18.880698 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 8598840 2025-07-30T07:30:15.524897 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52450 2025-07-30T07:30:10.752732 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32424 2025-06-14T22:10:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14113 2025-07-30T07:30:19.034687 application/rdf+xml 16629 2025-07-30T07:30:12.463735 image/jpeg 3011 2025-07-30T07:30:12.277722 image/jpeg 8730995 2025-07-30T07:30:11.476769 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia