The Crimson Field

[cecil39]

Is that it then? or have I missed one, Joans accused of treason, we see her ripped apart from her lover and her comrades, then nothing, are we not to know what happens next? surely they can't leave it there.

[quizbag]

I think there is a new series coming.

[Sqad]

I assumed that after all the palaver of the Germans shooting Edith Cavell, that she and her lover were both shot.

[maggiebee]

Loved this and felt it was left hanging in the air - just ripe for another series. Hope so anyway.

[Sqad]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/12/the-crimson-field-series-two-still-unconfirmed-as-fans-cry-out-for-more-4724792/

Not yet or even on the horizon it would appear.

[sandyRoe]

Veering away from the original question here. Before the introduction of antibiotics was the risk of infection as life threatening, or more so, than the wound that brought patients into the tented hospitals?

[vakayu]

Hi sandyroe nothing has changed much really going into hospital today with one thing wrong with you then acquiring other infections,not much progress?

[Zeuhl]

I think the plan has always been that as part of the BBCs WW1 project, the programme will follow events through to 1918 (2018)

[Sqad]

sandy...I don't think that one can compare wound infections against the severity of some of the injuries.

This was 1914 and the only attack against microbes was sterilisation and disinfection.

Gas gangrene and tetanus were the main killers and wound excision was imperative and urgent. By wound excision, i mean all tissue that was dead, all foreign shell fragments,all clothing fragments and a wide removal of normal tissue.........a dreadful business.

[Zeuhl]

My Great-Uncle survived WW1 and died in the 1940s.

Apparently he had a large wound in his back that never healed, just 'wept' continuously all his life.

[cecil39]

Will just have to hope for series 2 then, at least the beeb has come up with something watchable lately.