3 a.m.—When we got our load down to Boulogne yesterday morning all the hospitals were full, and the weather was too rough for the ships to come in and clear them, so we were ordered on to Havre, a very long journey. A German died before we got to Abbeville, where we put off two [...]
Category Archives: IV. On No.—Ambulance Train (2)
Monday, November 16th.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Boulogne, 9 a.m.—We loaded up at Bailleul 344. The Clearing Hospitals were very full, and some came off a convoy. One of mine died. One, wounded above the knee, was four days in the open before being picked up; he had six bullets in his leg, two in each arm, and crawled about till found; [...]
Sunday, November 15th.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
We got a move on in the middle of the night, and are now on our way up. The cold of this train life is going to be rather a problem. Our quarters are not heated, but we have “made” (i.e., acquired, looted) a very small oil-stove which faintly warms the corridor, but you can [...]
Saturday, November 14th.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Glorious sunny day, but very cold. Still in Boulogne, but out of Park Lane Siding slum, and among the ships again. Some French sailors off the T.B.’s are drilling on one side of us. Everything R.A.M.C. at the base is having a rest this week—ships, hospitals, and trains. Major S. said there was not so [...]
Friday, November 13th.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Boulogne.—We have been all day in Park Lane Siding among the trains, in pouring wet and slush. I amused myself with a pot of white paint and a forceps and wool for a brush, painting the numbers on both ends of the coaches inside, all down the train; you can’t see the chalk marks at [...]
Friday, 13th.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Still here—fourth day of rest. No one knows why; nearly all the trains are here. The news to-day is glorious. They say that the Germans did get through into Ypres and were bayoneted out again.
Thursday, November 12th.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Boulogne, 8 p.m.—Have been here all day. Had a hot bath on the St Andrew. News from the Front handed down the line coincides with the ‘Daily Mail.’
Wednesday, November 11th.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sometimes it seems as if we shall never get home, the future is so unwritten. A frightful explosion like this Hell of a War, which flared up in a few days, will take so much longer to wipe up what can be wiped up. I think the British men who have seen the desolation and [...]
Wednesday, November 4th.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Boulogne.—We had a lot of badly wounded Germans who had evidently been left many days; their condition was appalling; two died (one of tetanus), and one British. We have had a lot of the London Scottish, wounded in their first action. Reinforcements, French guns, British cavalry, are being hurried up the line; they all look [...]
Tuesday, November 3rd.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Bailleul, 8.30 a.m.—Just going to load up; wish we’d gone to Ypres. Germans said to be advancing.