AN AUSTRALIAN NURSE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 11

AN AUSTRALIAN NURSE

HER WORK AND OPINIONS. Sister Wicgnll, who accompanied tlio Australian wounded soldiers who wero on the Ballarat from Cairo'to Sydney rqcently, was working witlr'tho Australian No. 2 Base Hospital at Ghczirah Palace in Cairo. Accommodation for 900 soldiers' was provided, and was quickly utilised when the men who took part lii. tlio mcmorablo landing began to arrive. ' In the course of nil interview with a representative of tlio "Sydney Sunday Times,": Nurse Wiegall says:— _ "They never seemed. to ceaso thinking of their friends. On© mail in my ward of 50 beds caught sight of tlio namo on his pillow-caso ivhcu I was helping him into bed; strango to sa.v, it was tlio name of liis birth-place. His joy was amazing; ho absolutely hugged it. 'Think of it, Sister,' lie said, 'my mother may have , made this,, and here am I thousands of miles away resting my head on it I' He clung to tliat pillow-caso as to a human being, and would not let lis remove it wlion it was soiled. 'It's mine, and lias helped me to get well; don't-.tako'it away.' "Others woro lilco children over notes found; in the pockets of the pyjamas. Ihe.v treasured them like jewels. "It is. grim work, in the hospitals, but you don't'think of it when the. wounded come; They arrive in batches, and the doctors and nurses work day and night. _ All thought of self is lost m-tho desire to relieve the sufferings', of. the ; men, wlio help tremendously by their pluck, never flinching under tlio surgeon's: knife. I.have seen tliem endure the most terrible agonies without a murmur. No, wonder they won the admiration of tlio English and Irish soldiers who were fighting with them, and who rather expected them to funk their baptism of war. English officers oh ■board the warships told me they stood amazed with bated breath; watching them mount-tliat sheer cliff after landing. No one but Australians would do it, they said. 1 "Our/boys declare they went mad— sbeer recklessness carried tli'em through. The officers, were shot down in dozens, still the men tore on. The doctors followed up, tending the wounded. One, Dr. Butler, continued working as though: ho were on a picnic ground. After us"!6?'J.available material lie tore up his coat'; shirt, and. puttees ,for banThen 'realising a need, he grasp-: ed a rifle and led a company to'victory, with only his pants and boots on. Ho is .still alivo to tell the tale. '. _ "Some men seemed to have cliaTmed lives. : There is an. old .soldier from Kalgoorlie . who wanders' about tho •jenemy's- trenches at his rifle,-he will march off in broad day-, light or at night. Those'who witness h'is going never expect to see him again, tut he. returns as casually.as he went, maybo a, day after. 1 So far he has come off unscathed. "The Army Service men were loudly praised. They risk everything to convey food to the men in the. trenches. The food is good, too, they ' say, and_ Australians have mado their name for. initiative Menus out in. tho trenches, to the amazement of tlio English Tommi.es. Hani biscuit, soaked, 'makes' excellent and savories are produced from bully beef, cooked oil'biscuit, tin-lids'., "■ / "Let me tell you'how, wo blessed your Red Cross. It supplied us iwith everything; Wo could not have done without it._ Ask -them to send more dark lounge suits. ,Sp many movparo wounded only in tho hand or log, and they spend most of _ tho days in tlio 'grounds in these : suits. • Slippers are, needed, and light woollen undergarments. Neat little bags are a boon to the men ; anu soap, do not forgo.t it." . . ■ : i- '/■ .

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