There are hundreds of people in deep new black in this town; what must it be in Berlin? The cemetery here is getting full of French and British soldiers’ graves. Those 1200 sailors from the three cruisers had fine clean quick deaths compared to what happens here. We have got our baggage (kit-bags and holdalls) [...]
Category Archives: II. Le Mans: Wounded from the Aisne
Sunday, September 27th.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
My luck is in this time. Miss —— has just sent for me to tell me I am for permanent duty on No.— Ambulance Train (equipped) which goes up to the Front, to the nearest point on the rail to the fighting line. Did you ever know such luck? There are four of us, one [...]
Saturday, September 26th.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
6 a.m.—At Sablé at 4 a.m. we were turned out for two hours; a wee open station. Mr —— and our Civil Surgeon were most awfully decent to us: turned a sleepy official out of a room for us, and at 5 came and dug us out to have coffee and brioches with them. Then [...]
Friday, September 25th.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
In train back to Le Mans, 9 p.m. We landed our tired, stiff, painful convoy at St Nazaire at 8.45 yesterday evening. The M.O.’s there told us our lot made 1800 that had come down since early morning; one load of bad cases took eight hours to unload. The officers all seemed depressed and overworked, [...]
Thursday, September 24th
Monday, September 24, 2007
3 p.m.—Taking 480 sick and wounded down to St Nazaire, with a junior staff nurse, one M.O., and two orderlies. Just been feeding them all at Angers; it is a stupendous business. The train is miles long—not corridor or ambulance; they have straw to lie on the floors and stretchers. The M.O. has been two [...]
Wednesday, September 23rd.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Have been helping in the wards at No.— to-day. The Sisters and orderlies there have all about twice what they can get through—the big dressings are so appalling and new cases have been coming in—all stretcher cases. As soon as they begin to recover at all they are sent down to the base to make [...]
Tuesday, September 22nd.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Got back to Le Mans at 2 a.m.—motor-ambulanced up to the hospital, where an orderly made lovely beds for us on stretchers, with brown blankets and pillows, in the theatre, and labelled the door “Operation,” in case any one should disturb us. At 6 we went to our respective diggings for a wash and breakfast, [...]
Monday, September 21st.
Friday, September 21, 2007
In train on way back to Le Mans from St Nazaire. We did the journey in twelve hours, and arrived at 9 this morning, which was very good, considering the congestion on the line. In the middle of the night we pulled up alongside an immense troop train, taking a whole Brigade of D. of [...]
Sunday, September 20th.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Began with early service at the Jesuit School Hospital at 6.30, and the rest of the day one will never forget. The fighting for these concrete entrenched positions of the Germans behind Rheims has been so terrific since last Sunday that the number of casualties has been enormous. Three trains full of wounded, numbering altogether [...]
Saturday, September 19th.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
It seems that we five No.—s who came up last Monday are being kept to staff another Stationary Hospital farther up, when it is ready; at least that is what it looks like from sundry rumours—if so—good enough. We have been all day in caps and aprons at L’Evêché, marking linen and waiting for orders [...]