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The Manonvillers emergency post, located near Manonviller's fort, is a field construction built in retreat from a stabilized front line in September 1914. This underground complex, planned in 1916 and completed in 1917, was intended for intransportable injuries. It was commissioned in January 1918 by the French Army, under the responsibility of the 73rd Infantry Division's stretcher group.

The underground hospital consists of three perpendicular concrete galleries, covered with corrugated sheet and protected by a dirt slope. It housed rooms dedicated to the lying and seated wounded, an operating room, an X-ray room, a kitchen, and a generator. This emergency post, classified as a historic monument in 1922, illustrates the ingenuity of the military medical infrastructure of the First World War.

Although often associated with Manonviller, the hospital is actually located in Domjevin, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. His name as the "Manonviller emergency post" comes from his proximity to this strategic fort. The package reflects the logistical and medical efforts made to treat soldiers in extreme conditions at the rear of the Lorrain front.

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