Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . it washot to the touchâthree and a half poundsthrown eight hundred metres. I have 92 AMERICAN AMBULANCE kept it as a paper-weight â as a littleluncheon incident it is entertaining. Nothing of great interest happened dur-ing the afternoon, except that I broke myfoot-brake and to-morrow must put in anew one. After dinner, being off duty, Iwent to bed about eight oclock. Schroe-der left yesterday to go and see his brotherwho is wounded â he returns in about aweek. Meanwhile, I am alone and dontlike it. At one-thirty oclock this morningI woke up.
Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . it washot to the touchâthree and a half poundsthrown eight hundred metres. I have 92 AMERICAN AMBULANCE kept it as a paper-weight â as a littleluncheon incident it is entertaining. Nothing of great interest happened dur-ing the afternoon, except that I broke myfoot-brake and to-morrow must put in anew one. After dinner, being off duty, Iwent to bed about eight oclock. Schroe-der left yesterday to go and see his brotherwho is wounded â he returns in about aweek. Meanwhile, I am alone and dontlike it. At one-thirty oclock this morningI woke up. Something was wrong. Bang!Bang! Bang! Bang! Pont-a-Mousson be-ing bombarded, and badly â fifteen shellsfalling in three minutes, I counted, andthe firing continued for an hour and a halfwith intervals. I got dressed â prepared to descendinto the cellar if the shells came too nearmy house, and then about six-fifteen thebombardment stopped. I left the houseto find several fires started around thetown â they had shelled with incendiary. HOUSES AT PONT-A-MOUSSON FIELD SERVICE 93 shells as well as high explosives. As I gotback to our new headquarters, imaginemy surprise to find a huge shell hole âtwo yards from the house â in the driveitself â the house never bombarded fornine months. All the fellows, however,were safe, and our breakfast was a jocularone, for we could not help seeing the funnyside of it all. August 3d. Just a few more lines, as one of our Sec-tion is returning to America and will takethese letters over, and you should getthem about August 18th, with luck. I hopethe lecture was a financial success besidesa personal one! If all those people inAmerica only knew what this Section andour work mean to the soldiers here, moneywould not be long in coming. No onecan realize what our little group does forthe mutilated wounded â but if any onedoubts it, I wish he or she could see the 94 AMERICAN AMBULANCE grateful thanks in the eyes of the woundedsoldier as he is tak
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