Four weeks as acting commandant at the Belgian field hospital . BELGIAN FIELD HOSPITAL. manner which hardly conduced to thegeneral convenience or tidiness. But,d la guerre comme d la guerre; and as aMarquis-Major in the Guides (the smartcavalry corps of Belgium) wrote to me,one must recognise le magnifique dtvou-rnent de vos gracmises infirrnih-es. Thisquestion, however, will doubtless be dulyregulated by my successor after therigours of winter have driven the tent-dwellers indoors, and so left him a tabularasa, or, at least, one encumbered withthe precedents of only one hot
Four weeks as acting commandant at the Belgian field hospital . BELGIAN FIELD HOSPITAL. manner which hardly conduced to thegeneral convenience or tidiness. But,d la guerre comme d la guerre; and as aMarquis-Major in the Guides (the smartcavalry corps of Belgium) wrote to me,one must recognise le magnifique dtvou-rnent de vos gracmises infirrnih-es. Thisquestion, however, will doubtless be dulyregulated by my successor after therigours of winter have driven the tent-dwellers indoors, and so left him a tabularasa, or, at least, one encumbered withthe precedents of only one hot was prepared at forthe nurses who were going on day duty ;at 8 for the rest of us. No one wasto be served after nine; but it oftenhappened that I was kept in the officetill nearly nine dispatching the dailymail1 to Dunkirk, or interviewing alland sundry. 29 BELGIAN FIELD HOSPITAL. Every day a motor, great or small,went at least once (occasionally threetimes) into Dunkirk—our base of supplies—some twenty miles distant. The out-ward load was
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