During the First World War, frontline Allied medical care contributed to an astounding success rate for wounded and sick soldiers who received treatment. Staged medical treatment near the fighting lines significantly reduced the number of wounded soldiers dying from bleeding, shock, and infection after enduring horrific body damage due to bullet fire, shrapnel damage and later mustard gas exposure. Lice, rats, and overall unhygienic conditions at the front led to bouts of trench fever, trench foot and other sicknesses that warranted attention to their prevention and treatment. This presentation examines frontline WWI medical care towards ‘saving’ Captain Allison, a physician assigned to the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC), from historical obscurity and why a German WWI medical kit now resides in a Canadian university medical artifact collection.