RESCUING THE WOUNDED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 6

RESCUING THE WOUNDED

« A private in the Army Medical Corps givce the following account of the perils faced by the stretcher bearers in bringing tlie wounded in for treatment. "Our stretcher bearers go out at mgut to the trenches to fetah in the wounded, or, to bo more correct, they go usually to what is called an advance dressing station. This is generally a farm or a house near the firing Hue, to which wounded aro carried or guiaed by repmental stretcher ■ bearers. Recently, they have been once or twice to tp® advance tranches, to within a short distance of the German lines, to fetch the wounded from there, and it is no joke. When they go up they are constantly exposed to snipers and stray bullets, and when star shells are sent up ttsey have to lie down or crouch until ui» beastly things go out, and "they take quite a long time. The fields are deep in mud, and some of tho trenches are half full of water, in which dead bodies have been floating for weeks. Th» wounded are loaded into motor Elir.b\> lance wagons, and brought to the hospitals. Hero they aro redressed and operated on. If a. bullet is near th® surface it is extracted, otherwise it u left until tho patient gets down to tie haso hospital.''