Stephan Westmann

In the First World War, Westmann served in the German 29th Infantry Division on the Western and Eastern fronts and then as an Air Force surgeon, although unqualified.

After he was discharged, he completed his medical studies and became a professor at the University of Berlin, and in the 1930s migrated to England and became a doctor in Harley Street, Westminster.

In later life, Westmann appeared on BBC television to talk about the First World War from the German point of view and also wrote his memoirs.

Large numbers of his colleagues were killed, the survivors lay down, unable to move, and they began to be hit by shells, with body parts flying through the air.

[2] On his return to the Western Front, Westmann was promoted to medical officer, even though he had not qualified as a physician, and was put in command of an ambulance train.

He found himself working as a surgeon, operating on casualties of many nationalities, and also treated both German and Allied soldiers suffering from poison gas attacks.

He was posted as a medical officer to the Richthofen Circus of the German Air Force, dealing with casualties of aerial combat.