Wording as per the sign on the cabinet - Front-line first aid If you got shot, you prayed a mate would put on your First Field Dressing - just two small wads of gauze, one for the entry would, one for the exit.  Then you hoped like hell a stretcher-bearer would find you in time.  A Red Cross armband was all that stood between those brave men and death.  It showed they were unarmed and shouldn't be targets. First-class care? When Private Joseph Kelly was shot on the first day of the campaign, he was taken back to the troopship Lutzow and this baggage label was tied around his wrist.   The Lutzow - a captured German liner - was so ill-equipped to evacuate casualties that old luggage labels were used to identify the wounded.  The voyage to hospitals in Egypt was a nightmare.  Initially, only two men on board had medical experience: a veterinary surgeon and a medical orderly.
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