Mather’s project examines advancements in the treatment of gunshot wounds during the First World War, comparing official guidelines with actual field practice. The First World War was a time of great medical challenges. Advancements in military technology, such as machine guns, shells, and chemical gases made injuries more severe and deadly. The result was an amalgamation of horrific war wounds further exacerbated by the awful conditions of the Western Front. Historians of First World War medicine have analyzed the journals and papers of physicians, medical manuals, patient testimonies, governmental records, and a number of other administrative records. Mather plans on shifting away from these traditional sources, and instead will use individual medical records from the First World War soldiers to construct an excel database of patients admitted to military hospitals on the Western Front and in Britain. Central to this project are the new technologies adopted in the First World War, demonstrating humanities’ ingenuity and resilience during times of devastation. The final database will have data for several thousand patients. From this, statistics such as the number of documented uses of the X-ray for abdominal gunshot wounds, or the specific number of anti-typhoid inoculations can be quantified. It will also allow calculations of the length of stay in hospitals across a sample of wound types, and the correlation between wound type and return to active duty. Support from the Center for the Humanities will facilitate travel to London for two weeks of intensive research. The U.K National Archives houses a large number of medical records for individual wounded soldiers from the First World War.