We did go on to Rouen. B. is full to the brim. We have only unloaded at B. three times since Christmas.I’m beginning to think we waste a lot of sympathy on the poor wounded rocking in a train all night after being on it all day. One of mine with a bullet still in [...]
Category Archives: VII. On No.— Ambulance Train (5)
Saturday, January 30th
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
We got up to Merville at one o’clock last night, and loaded up only forty-five, and are now just going to load up again at a place on the way back. We have been completely done out of the La Bassée business; haven’t been near it. No.— Cl. H. that we saw on December 27th, [...]
Friday, January 29th.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
One of those difficult-to-bear days; hung up all day at a place beyond St Omer, listening to guns, and doing nothing when there’s so much to be done. The line is probably too busy to let us up. It happens to be a dazzling blue day, which must be wiping off 50 per cent of [...]
Thursday, January 28th.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Got to Boulogne this morning. Have been getting stores in and repairs done; expect to be sent up any time. Sharp frost and cold wind.
Wednesday, January 27th
Sunday, January 27, 2008
They have found a way of warming our quarters when we have not an engine on. I don’t know what we should have done without it to-day; it is icy cold. Mails to-morrow, hurrah! Going to turn in early.
Tuesday, 26th January
Saturday, January 26, 2008
A dazzling blue spring day. As we were not going in to load at Rouen till 3 p.m., we went for the most glorious walk in this country. We crossed the ferry over the Seine to the foot of the steep high line of hills which eventually overlooks Rouen, and climbed up to the top [...]
Monday, January 25th
Friday, January 25, 2008
We have been at Sotteville all day; had time to read last week’s ‘Times’—an exceptionally interesting lot.Have just had orders to load up at Rouen for Havre to-morrow; then I hope we shall go back to Boulogne. We have not stayed more than an hour or two in Boulogne since January 9th—that is, for seventeen [...]
Sunday, January 24th
Thursday, January 24, 2008
5 a.m., Versailles.—They’ve had a pretty good night most of them. If you see any compartment, say six sitters and two top-liers showing signs of being near the end of their tether, with bad feet and long hours of the train, you have only to say cheerfully, “How are you getting on in this dug-out?” [...]
Still Saturday, January 23rd.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
This is our first journey to Versailles. My only acquaintance with it was on the way up from Le Mans to Villeneuve to join this train. Two kind sisters, living in a sort of little ticket office in the middle of the line, washed and fed me at 6 a.m. in between two trains, but [...]
Saturday, January 23rd
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Another blue, sunny, frosty morning. Loading up this morning was hard to attend to, as a thrilling Taube chase was going on overhead, the sky peppered with bursting shells, and aeroplanes buzzing around: didn’t bring it down though.The train is full of very painful feet: like a form of large burning chilblain all over the [...]