page_title: Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith
section_title: Illness and injury
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith / First A.I.F. / Illness and injury
caption_attribution_description: English: This image (taken on 14 March 1919 at Châtelet, Belgium) shows a group of soldiers receiving valuable training in bandaging, as part of their training in first-aid from instructors at the First Australian Field Ambulance, prior to their postwar return to Australia, as part of the academic, practical, and vocational training offered within the formal A.I.F Education scheme, that had been instituted by Rt. Rev. George Merrick Long, Anglican Bishop of Bathurst (former headmaster of Trinity Grammar, Melbourne) in May 1918. The scheme, was designed to equip all members of the A.I.F. with the remedial training, experience, skills, abilities, and/or qualifications that would significantly increase their capacity to re-enter the civilian workforce (often in entirely different professions from those in which they were engaged on enlistment). Second from the right, is one of the instructors: Corporal Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith (279).
context_page_description: Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, known as Gemmell, was an innovative Australian educator who landed at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, on Sunday, 25 April 1915 as a member of the Second Field Ambulance unit, and went on to serve in Europe for the duration of the war. He also served as an AIF Education Scheme Instructor in Belgium. He was a prominent member of the Melbourne Anglican community, and he taught at Caulfield Grammar School from 1913 to 1951.
  "He was a man of wide and sympathetic culture. In addition to his love for music, he was a discriminating connoisseur of painting, and a devotee of ballet and the theatre. He was a devoted churchman and interested in manly sports. Above all, he was an idealist, but, unlike many idealists, he was ready to give practical expression to his ideals." — Webber, p.248
context_section_description: Lamb-Smith sought treatment for gastric illness from time to time at Gallipoli, and in November 1915 he was hospitalized in Egypt with a case of "Enteric Fever" (i.e., Typhoid fever), which was severe enough for him to be invalided back to Australia in December 1915, where he recovered sufficiently, four months later, to be able to return to duty. He rejoined the Second Field Ambulance, in France, in August 1916.
  He was wounded-in-action in the left leg, in France, on 22 April 1917. He was hospitalized for a month, released, and, then, re-admitted with a poisoned left leg five months later. He returned to active duty with the Second Field Ambulance in mid-December 1917, and continued to serve with them until the end of the war.
caption: Soldiers receiving first-aid instruction as part of the AIF Education scheme, in Belgium, 1919. Lamb-Smith, one of the instructors, is second from right, standing.
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