A surgeon in khaki . COMPIEGNE, SHOWING THE BROKEN Ambulance crossing the Oise on a Pontoon bridge. GOOD-BYE TO THE AISNE 157 bulance located in a pig-sty of a farmhouse and weretold that it was to move off shortly and march throughthe night. All the romance of night marching had gonefor us, and we wanted to sleep. We were tired of walk-ing, tired of everything, tired of the war, and vaguelywondered why we had been so foolish as to leaveEngland. So at nine oclock on the same evening off we marchedagain into the outer darkness of a depressing, gloomynight, and we were on our feet throu
A surgeon in khaki . COMPIEGNE, SHOWING THE BROKEN Ambulance crossing the Oise on a Pontoon bridge. GOOD-BYE TO THE AISNE 157 bulance located in a pig-sty of a farmhouse and weretold that it was to move off shortly and march throughthe night. All the romance of night marching had gonefor us, and we wanted to sleep. We were tired of walk-ing, tired of everything, tired of the war, and vaguelywondered why we had been so foolish as to leaveEngland. So at nine oclock on the same evening off we marchedagain into the outer darkness of a depressing, gloomynight, and we were on our feet through the whole of of the time we were standing by the roadsidewaiting for the congestion of the long columns in frontto ease off. Sometimes we would sit in a ditch by theroadside and go off to sleep, only to be wakened a minuteafter by the cry, Forward! About 6 we reached Croisette. The namesounds attractive, but it really was a mean-lookingfarmhouse at a cross-road ; however, we got a very goodbreakfast of coffee, bread and fresh butter, and e
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