A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . Another pastime was riding. Their horses were superb A MILITARY HOSPITAL 109 ambulances, stunned, and with a dislocated I was on duty again next day. About midsummer we were moved to the Of-ficers Ward, which was a new departure. For-merly the officers had been nursed with the soldiers,but now the soldiers were moved into the huts out-side, and the main building was used only for thelarge staff. There were a theatre, X-ray rooms,receiving room (where the newly arrived woundedwere examined), offices, kitchens, and just one
A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . Another pastime was riding. Their horses were superb A MILITARY HOSPITAL 109 ambulances, stunned, and with a dislocated I was on duty again next day. About midsummer we were moved to the Of-ficers Ward, which was a new departure. For-merly the officers had been nursed with the soldiers,but now the soldiers were moved into the huts out-side, and the main building was used only for thelarge staff. There were a theatre, X-ray rooms,receiving room (where the newly arrived woundedwere examined), offices, kitchens, and just onesmall ward of eight beds for the officers Myfriend and I were put in charge, one on night andone on day-duty and there we made some verygood friends whom we have since met in Londonwhen they had leave or were convalescent. Oncewe had a Belgian captain of an airplane, who fellthree thousand metres and only fractured hisshoulder-blade! We tried to give these men some-thing of the comforts they would have had in aLondon hospital. Oh, the letters I wrote to RedCross sewing parties! And the
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