AID TO ALLIES’ WOUNDED.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1917, Page 4

AID TO ALLIES’ WOUNDED.

“ Italy Will Not Forget.” Italian army Headquarters, Job 15. It is more than eighteen mouths since the first BrilLh Red Crocs ambulances leichod ’ha Italia-' front, and there are now mere than a hundred cars and 157 persons workirg. These are attached (o units cove ing about 60 miles of front. Lord Monson is the Commissioner, and the mission is very largely composed of volunteers in the truest sense of the word—that is to say, of people who not only work for nothing but also pay their expenses. There are among them ladies, country gentlemen, artists, writers, business men, and artisans. ” There are tEree units. The first and most important, under the command of Mr G. M. Trevelyan, has a hospital in San Giovanni di Manzano and an ambulance depot in Gonzia. The second works in Carnia ; the third serves oa the Carso. There is also pn X rays section in charge of Countess Helena Gleichen and Mrs Nina Holliugs. The ladies (whofirst studied in Paris and then, under your great X-rays expert, Sir James Mackenzie Davidsou) arrived at the Italian front just over a year ago, and from that day to this they have worked among our wounded without rest or holiday. They have had the satisfaction of overcoming the natural prejudice men bear against women’s work, earning the esteem and regard of the Italian surgeons and the honor of receiving from King Victor the “A 1 Valore ” medal for their services under fire. I have seen the hospital at Villa Trento in San Giovanni di Manzano, a small town between Udina and Cormons. Mr Trevelyan received me very kindly and showed me round. The hospital contains 100 beds and has received 2,500 patients since its institution, but at the fall of Gorizia it took in as many as 220 at a time. The medical director is Dr George Sandison Brock, physician to the British Embassy in Rome, and Colonel Sir Alexander Ogston is the surgeon. AWARD TO MR TREVELEYAN. All these brave British friends are doing noble and splendid worl/ The ambulances worked at the MiddleIsonzo front beyond Cormons, at Qaissa, Piava, aud C a pore tie, otetn under fire. At the inking or Gorizia they were the fist ambulances toci'oßß tne damaged laorzo bridges into the towD. Our Kiog showed his appreciation of their work in clearing the San Floriano front hospital under fire in November 1915 by awarding Mr Trevelyan the Italian silver medal for military valour. Twenty of the have been bit *\y sheila and two men wounded. My inspection of the hospital impressed me most favourably. I found all the arrangement* excellent and easy realised the national genian elmost everywhere even in little things. The residents form one fimily, and Villa Trento seemed to me a corner of England -tranepatted to near our front, ' Among the patients I saw a young driver from Glasgow who bad been badly wounded in Gorizia. I am Borrv I could not say at his bedside all I then frit in my heart., I «av it row : We Italians will never forget the sacrifices, hardships, and kindness of th j noble tegnti ot British missionaries. We appreciate their help and even mo-'s their sentiments. We \vinh to thank them all. We know tba> Villa Trento is a living redity of the old friendship between the two countries.