DR. CARBERY AT THE FRONT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 16, 19 May 1915, Page 6

DR. CARBERY AT THE FRONT.

LATEST NEWS FROM HIM. Stratford people have a very Kindly place in their hearts for the genial Dr. A. I). Carbery, and it will therefore be interesting to them to read some few extracts from a letter received to-day by Mrs Carbery from her sou who is somewhere in Flanders. “We are ardently looking forward to the summer which the local wights tell ns is due in the middle of April. We have not fared too badly, however, as during the winter all troops were in billets, and beds were available l'»r officers in many cases. This probalny will not continue during the .-iitirn <•, and bivouacs will be the order of the day Ypres as yet is a bit “shelly,” and much damaged. Armentieres is much better, only an occasional shell, and picture palaces now open—quite a gay town! Nothing is certain in war, an i you never know where you wll be in twenty-four hours. Recently I slept in a fine bedroom all to myself one night. Marched all next night; slept on the Hoor in another place the next night ; hack again to my nice bedroom the next night; out and into a lint the next night; off again and once more found a tiny bed in a tiny room. There are an astonishing lot of young Dublin doctors out here. T meet them everywhere, some of them I knew before. The Irish take to war like ducks to water. They have responded to tfie call well. . . . 1 am now attached to the Royal Irish Rifles. ... A surgeon in the field does very little that a surgeon does in peace time. You can see me seeing morning sick in one village, dressing wounds in another, superintending kitchens or a laundry or a bath-house in another, or taking a walk into Ballieux or “Baloo” as the Tommies call it.” Dr. Carbery concludes:—“Remember me to old friends.”