Rouen, 9 p.m. Got here late last night, and all the wounded were taken off straight away to the two general hospitals here. One has 1300 cases, and has kept two people operating day and night. A great many deaths from tetanus. Seen General French’s 2nd despatch (of September) to-day in ‘Daily Mail.’ No mail [...]
Category Archives: III. On No.— Ambulance Train (1)
Sunday, October 18th.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
9 p.m.—Got under way at 6 a.m., and are now about half-way between Paris and Rouen. We outskirted Paris. Passed a train full of Indian troops. Put off the four wounded women at Paris; they have been a great addition to the work, but very sweet and brave; the orderlies couldn’t do enough for them; [...]
Saturday, October 17th.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
We are to stay here till Monday, to go on taking up the wounded from the 1st Division. They went on coming in all yesterday in motor ambulances. They come straight from the trenches, and are awfully happy on the train with the first attempts at comforts they have known. One told me they were [...]
Friday, October 16th.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
2 p.m.—Have had a very busy time since last entry. The shelling of the village was aimed at the church, the steeple of which was being used by the French for signalling. A butcher was killed and a boy injured, and as the British Clearing Hospital was in the church and the French Hospital next [...]
Thursday, October 15th.
Monday, October 15, 2007
10 a.m.—Braisne. Got here about 8 o’clock. After daylight only evidence of the war I could see from my bed were long lines of French troops in the roads, and a few British camps; villages all look deserted. Guns booming in the distance, sounds like heavy portmanteaux being dropped on the roof at regular intervals. [...]
Wednesday, October 14th.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Still in the siding “waiting for orders” to move on. There’s a lot of waiting being done in this war one way and another, as well as a lot of doing. What a splendid message the French Government have sent the Belgian Government on coming to Havre! exciting for the people at Havre: they used [...]
Tuesday, October 13th.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
At last I am on the train, and have just unpacked. There is an Army Sister and two Reserve, a Major ——, O.C., and two junior officers. Don’t know yet what messing arrangements are. We each have a bunk to ourselves, with a proper mattress, pillow, and blankets: a table and seat at one end, [...]
III. On No.— Ambulance Train (1): First Experiences
Saturday, October 13, 2007
III. On No.— Ambulance Train (1) FIRST EXPERIENCES October 13, 1914, to October 19, 1914 “In lonely watches, night by night Great visions burst upon my sight, For down the stretches of the sky The hosts of dead go marching by. Dear Christ, who reignst above the flood Of human tears and human blood, A [...]