CLEARING THE WOUNDED.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1917, Page 3

CLEARING THE WOUNDED.

An Australian soldisr, writiug to bis wife in Sydney, from Ist London General Hospital, saya : “ When I was seriously wounded by shell-fire I rolled into a shell-hole to esoapo further troable. Our transport sergeant was the first man who attempted to assist me. In answer to my cries he sang out, ‘ Whore an yon ?’ They were the last words the poor fellow spoke. He was coming towards me, but a high explosive landed and shattered him. His horse’s head was blown off. 1 got away from that spoc somehow, to a

battery of English guns, where first-aid was rendered. I heard shortly afterwards that Fruz put a shell under the gun where I was attended to and blew it to atoms. I waa carried for some distance on a stretcher, and then put

on a sledge and pulled for about three miles through the mud in and out of shell-holes, across captured trenches and barbad wire, to a field dressingstation, where I was dressed and given a hot drink and an injection of antitetanus. I was then transported in a motor ambnlanoe to a clearing station, and from there to a French village hospital. “ The whole system of transporting wounded ia perfect. The ambulance trains here have every medicai and surgical convenience, and the staffs of sisters ard orderlies are kindness personified. The English nursing sisters are types of a kind, alert and capable women one oonld not beat if you travelled the world over.”