Some medical aspects of Long Range Penetration. Regimental Medical Officer, 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment (September 1944).

Abstract

Editor's note: The following notes were intended as a help to platoon commanders operating with LRP troops and were the result of observations made on six months LRP training and fifteen weeks operations with a column of 23rd British Infantry Brigade in the Naga Hills. The operations, particularly from the point of view of treatment and evacuation of casualties, differed from those of the Brigades who were operating inside Burma itself owing to the nature of the terrain, but the basic problems, particularly from the platoon commander's point of view, were the same. The author's views may still be of interest today after more than 40 years.