Albert Policard

As the second of seven children, he had to finance his studies, so he decided to enrol at the École du service de santé militaire in Lyon, which he entered on 25 October 1900.

Following a one-year internship at Val-de-Grâce, Albert Policard was assigned to the 2nd Dragoon Regiment in Lyon's Part-Dieu barracks in 1905, where he rose to the rank of medical assistant-major first class (lieutenant) by 1906.

[7] In 1910, he became a major medical second class (captain) and was appointed as a supervisor at the Military Health School's laboratory for the XIVth Army Corps.

[8] Albert Policard became an associate professor of histology at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon in 1913 and requested to be released from his military duties, which was granted effective September 1, 1913.

In May 1917, Albert Policard joined the auto-surgery unit 20, and in July, he was summoned by Claudius Regaud to lead the Groupement des Services Chirurgicaux et Scientifiques at the original Hospital of Stages (HOE) in Prouilly, later relocated to Bouleuse (Marne) near Reims.