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of expressing something of the admiration, of the wonder, of the intense brotherly sympathy and affection-almos

ad of severely wounded being dumped into the reception marquees of a Casualty Clearing Station. There they would be placed in long rows awaiting their turn, and there, amid the groans of the wounded and the loud gaspings of the gassed, at the mere approach of a sister there woul

by the nature of their work. I have seen them, too, continue that work under intermittent shelling and bombing, repeated day after day and night after night, and it was the

n one occasion, killed, and found their comrades conti

what our war women have been through, or

, for the tenacity which won the war! The feeling, the knowledge that their women were at hand to succou

jured, never lost her head or her consciousness, but through half an hour sat quietly on the road-side beside the wre

the imagination of our French and Belgian Allies

nconsciously, in this book, e.g. the spirit of cheerfulness; the power to forget danger and hardship; the faculty

-de-corps, their gaiety, their discipline, their smartness and devotion when d

y were always ready to take on any and every job, from starting up a frozen

N, K.C.M.G.,

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l Services, Britis

ision, 1915; Deputy-Director Medical Services, VI Corps, May 1915 to Ju

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