Saturday, 5 February 2011

We have some heartbreaking cases to deal with at times I can tell you, for instance the following. We brought in a case the other night, it was a shell wound to the leg, he was suffering very much from pain and shock, and from the trenches to our hospital, the roads are very bad, owing to holes from shell fire and too dangerous to repair, and so our wagons do not travel so smooth, this poor man said to me “O do stop the wagon”; of course I could not as we were in a danger zone and our building in sight , so I said “ we are nearly there now and I will soon put you right”, but he said “I know that but I am in awful pain, do stop” I knew he was dying and the jarring of the wagon was causing him agony, and the above was the last words he said, as he was dead before he got to our hospital. I could not sleep that night for thinking how he had died, and the loved ones he may have left behind. Now Lovie, do not say a word to anyone of what I have just said as we are not supposed to say a word in our letters about same, so I trust my secret to you my dearest darling.

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