Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . for two out of the six kilometres we are exposed 16 AMERICAN AMBULANCE to German view and the whole of the way,of course, to shell fire. On my first arrivalat this little mountain village I was horri-fied to see two people lying dead in theroad in huge pools of blood. Six German 150s had been suddenly launched intothe village which is full of soldiers, andkilled six soldiers and wounded some of the six shots had landed actuallyin the road itself. Two of our ambulanceswere in the street at the time and onlychance spared them. I ask
Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . for two out of the six kilometres we are exposed 16 AMERICAN AMBULANCE to German view and the whole of the way,of course, to shell fire. On my first arrivalat this little mountain village I was horri-fied to see two people lying dead in theroad in huge pools of blood. Six German 150s had been suddenly launched intothe village which is full of soldiers, andkilled six soldiers and wounded some of the six shots had landed actuallyin the road itself. Two of our ambulanceswere in the street at the time and onlychance spared them. I asked where theshells had struck, and my stretcher-bearerlooked around for a moment and thenpointed under my own car, and therewas a hole some nine inches deep andtwo feet wide. It made me feel ratherrotten, I must say. Only five minutesbefore and it might happen again at anymoment. I took down three couches, asthe lying-down ones are called, and hadto pass in front of a battery of 75swhich fired as I passed and gave me a PUTTING IN UPPER STRETCHER. LOADING AN AMBULANCE FIELD SERVICE 17 shaky knee feeling, I can tell you. Thenbackward and forward for two hourscarrying more wounded, and to add to theexcitement it rained so hard that I wasthankful I had bought myself two uni-forms and could change. To-day is Sun-day, and after a rather uncomfortablenight in my clothes and a snatchy sleep, Ihave a day off. Salisbury, our Section leader, asked meto go with him to Toul, and I went forwhat proved to be a wonderful drivethrough sleeping villages and semi-tilledland and woods and valleys. Toul is oneof the most fortified towns in France, andas we approached we saw trench aftertrench and wire entanglements, etc. TheGermans, however, will never advance sofar, I think. We stopped at the aeroplanesheds where we picked up a Captain(Australian) and with him entered Toul,a quiet sleeping town with a lovelychurch. Returning we were taken over 18 AMERICAN AMBULANCE the sheds and saw a large quanti
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