R.M.S.P. Asturias, Havre.—At last we are uprooted from that convent up the hot hill and are on an enormous hospital ship, who in times of peace goes to New York and Brazil and the Argentine. There are 240 Sisters on her, one or two M.O.’s, and all the No.— equipment. She is like a great [...]
Category Archives: I. Waiting for Orders.
Wednesday, September 2nd.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
We are leaving to-morrow, on a hospital ship, possibly for Nantes K. has given orders for every one to be cleared out of Havre by to-morrow. We found some men invalided from the Front lying outside the station last night waiting for an ambulance, mostly reservists called up; they’d had a hot time, but were [...]
Tuesday, September 1st.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
No orders yet, so we are still waiting, packed up. Went with one of the regulars to-day to see the big hospital ship Asturias with 3000 beds, and also to see Sister —— at the No.— Maritime Hospital. They’ve been very busy there dressing the wounded for the ship. Colonel —— brought us back in [...]
Monday, August 31st.
Friday, August 31, 2007
We all got up at 5.30 to be ready, but I daresay we shan’t move to-day. Yesterday we had two starved, exhausted, fugitive (from Amiens) No.— Sisters in to tea on our floor, and heard their stories. The last seventeen of them fled with the wounded. A train of cattle-trucks came in at Rouen with [...]
Sunday, August 30th.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Orders to-day for the whole Base at Havre to pack itself up and embark at a moment’s notice. So No.—, No.—, No.—, and No.— G.H., who are all here, and a Royal Flying Corps unit, the Post Office, and the Staff, and every blessed British unit, are all packing up for dear life. We may [...]
Saturday, August 29th.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
A grilling day. It is very difficult, this waiting. No.— had 450 wounded in yesterday, and they were whisked off on the hospital ship in the evening. It doesn’t look as if there would be anything for us to do for weeks.
Friday, August 28th.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Hot and brilliant. Eleven fugitive Sisters of No.— have come back to-day from Amiens, and the others are either hung up somewhere or on the way.
Thursday, August 27th.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Bright sun to-day, so I hope the Army is drying itself. All sorts of rumours as usual—that our wounded are still on the field, being shot by the Germans, that 700 are coming to Havre to-day, that 700 have been taken in at Rouen, where we have three G.H.’s—that last is the truest story. We [...]
Wednesday, August 26th.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Very ominous leading articles in the French papers to-day bidding every one to remember that there is no need to give up hope of complete success in the end! There is a great deal about the French and English heavy losses, but where are the wounded being sent? It is absolutely maddening sitting here still [...]
Tuesday, August 25th.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
We bide here. No.— G.H., which is also here, has been chopped in half, and divided between us and No.— General, the permanent Base Hospital already established here. So we shall be two base hospitals, each with 750 beds. The place is full of rumours of all sorts of horrors,—that the Germans have landed in [...]