Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . e, wounded in the knee. As Ineared Dieulouard I heard sounds of shells 50 AMERICAN AMBULANCE exploding, and as I reached the outskirtsof the town I saw a 210 land in therailway station some hundred yards tothe right of the main road. I asked theCaptain if he thought it better to waittill the bombardment was over, and hereplied, I must leave this to your judg-ment, as we are in your car; so I de-cided that as the shells generally fall atregular intervals of three, five, or sevenminutes (the Germans are so methodicalthat when you know the time t
Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . e, wounded in the knee. As Ineared Dieulouard I heard sounds of shells 50 AMERICAN AMBULANCE exploding, and as I reached the outskirtsof the town I saw a 210 land in therailway station some hundred yards tothe right of the main road. I asked theCaptain if he thought it better to waittill the bombardment was over, and hereplied, I must leave this to your judg-ment, as we are in your car; so I de-cided that as the shells generally fall atregular intervals of three, five, or sevenminutes (the Germans are so methodicalthat when you know the time they arefiring you can know to the second whenthe next shell will arrive), I would go time, however, more than one bat-tery was shelling Dieulouard, and as I waspassing a house on the road, it was hit bya shell. All was black dust and smoke andI had perforce to pull up a minute — twopeople in the house were killed, and al-though my car was covered with brick-dust and debris no one was even bruised!I dont want to come any nearer, PONT-A-MOUSSON HOUSE HIT BY A 210 FIELD SERVICE 51 I carried over forty wounded yesterday adistance of a hundred and sixty kilos andat nine oclock turned in to sleep, to bewaked up at two oclock to go to AubergeSt. Pierre. Schroeder and I both went, asthey had some fourteen wounded and itwas necessary to have two cars. It was aglorious morning, and when I got to the topof the hill all was quiet and Gods peaceseemed to be everywhere. The Major wasthere to receive us, and so interested andappreciative is he that any one of us woulddo anything for him. Just as I was start-ing down with a full load I found I hadpicked up a nail and a puncture was the or-der of the day. Two fellows ran forward,and explaining that they were chauffeursin peace time, refused to let me work onit, and the Major made me sit on a fallentree by the roadside and smoke a cigaretteand talk to him. We are, of course, meresoldiers, but to be treated so kindly and sotho
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