[Justin Godart in the Military Health Service during the First World War]

From Viviani's ministry to Clémenceau's, Justin Godard was secretary of state at the Military Health Department. The tremendous amount of warfare dramatically revealed the deficiency of the Health Department at this time. Then Justin Godard decided to take the lead and re-organise this department: "the right skills at the right place", as well as moral values. Among others, he deployed and multiplied hospitals and surgical units, including the new concept of "autochires" (nearly 3000 fully equipped ambulances). In the spirit of appropriately exploiting skills he founded specialised centres. As a matter of fact, he never neglected wounded and war traumatised. He founded re-education centres and established exhaustive measures for pensions to disabled ex-servicemen. In this paper an overview of his actions during the period is given.