A Volunteer Nurse On the Western Front
“In each dual marquee the floors and lockers have been scrubbed with cresolis and water, the beds have been made, the linen chest, food cupboard and dressing-box – courtesy titles, by the way, they are only packing cases, – which stand in the tunnel between the marquees have been cleaned and put in order, the table scrubbed and set out with lotions, drums and dressing materials, and one puts on one’s gown preparatory to taking down the dressings while looking forward to a good, uninterrupted mor...ning’s work.
‘Lints, splints, bandages and cod-liver oil.
Fall in A, fall in B, Fall in all the company.
Fall in at the double.
Fall in at the double.’ So sounds the bugle, and the stretcher-bearers hurry off. The interruption has already come. A convoy is in.
In the course of a few minutes the tent-door parts and our cases arrive, usually as many as we have empty beds. The walking cases are in khaki, clay covered, mud-stained, blood-stained, clothing ripped, head perhaps bandaged, arm in a sling or hand bandaged, face boasting pads of gauze and adhesive plaster or, perhaps, foot in huge ‘trench slippers,’ – in which latter case the patient is probably carried in pick-a-back.MoreLess
‘Lints, splints, bandages and cod-liver oil.
Fall in A, fall in B, Fall in all the company.
Fall in at the double.
Fall in at the double.’ So sounds the bugle, and the stretcher-bearers hurry off. The interruption has already come. A convoy is in.
In the course of a few minutes the tent-door parts and our cases arrive, usually as many as we have empty beds. The walking cases are in khaki, clay covered, mud-stained, blood-stained, clothing ripped, head perhaps bandaged, arm in a sling or hand bandaged, face boasting pads of gauze and adhesive plaster or, perhaps, foot in huge ‘trench slippers,’ – in which latter case the patient is probably carried in pick-a-back.MoreLess
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