tailieunhanh - Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915

We had a great send-off in Sackville Street in our motor-bus, and went on board about 2 . From then till 7 we watched the embarkation going on, on our own ship and another. We have a lot of . and . and ., and a great many horses and pontoons and ambulance waggons: the horses were very difficult to embark, poor dears. It was an exciting scene all the time. I don't remember anything quite so thrilling as our start off from Ireland. All the 600 khaki men on board, and every one on every other ship, and all the crowds on the quay,. | Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western by Anonymous 1 Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western by Anonymous The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 Author Anonymous Release Date July 26 2006 EBook 18910 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF A NURSING SISTER Produced by Suzanne Lybarger Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western by Anonymous 2 Naught broken save this body lost but breath. Nothing to shake the laughing heart s long peace there But only agony and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London 1915 CONTENTS. PAGE I. WAITING FOR ORDERS AUGUST 18 1914 TO SEPTEMBER 14 1914 1 The voyage out--Havre--Leaving . Asturias --St Nazaire--Orders at last. II. LE MANS--WOUNDED FROM THE AISNE--SEPTEMBER 15 1914 TO OCTOBER 11 1914 33 Station duty--On train duty--Orders again--Waiting to go--Still at Le Stationary Hospital--Off at last--The Swindon of France. III. ON AMBULANCE TRAIN 1 --FIRST EXPERIENCES--OCTOBER 13 1914 TO OCTOBER 19 1914 65 Ambulance Train--Under fire--Tales of the Retreat--Life on the Train. IV. ON AMBULANCE TRAIN 2 --FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES--OCTOBER 20 1914 TO NOVEMBER 17 1914 81 Rouen--First Battle of Ypres--At Ypres--A rest--A General Hospital. V. ON AMBULANCE TRAIN 3 --BRITISH AND .