The Stanford Illustrated Review Volume 20, No. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... little after midnight after the 14th, when shells began to drop at regular intervals into the town. That, and the rolling roar from the front, left no doubt that I had lost my bet. We got up, walked out to our cantonment, gave orders for the section to move bodily to the "triage," or sorting hospital; then I went back with a car to bring out a poor old crippled woman, confined to her bed, who had been bombed out of her own home a year before and had come to this little town for shelter. Wc had plenty of time to get settled before the ears began to come in with the wounded. And then they did pour in A French section shared with ours the work of the front line posts, and another French section, with big cars and a lot of heavy camions, did the evacuation work to the hospitals and railroads in the rear. For a number of hours our work was faster, and the wounded on their stretchers overflowed all the big rooms and the tent, and were laid close all over the court. By far the greater part were from other regiments than ours. those from the immediate front, ami among them a number of Americans. Our own cars carried during that first period--I think it was--four hundred and sixty-five--somewhat more than half. And the gratifying part of it was. that we niit every call without a failure. It was the first time I had been at the triage during a great attack, and this time the wounds were more severe, they told me, than is generally the case. The fortitude and gentle patience of the men was so fine and simple that it was hard to realize at what a cost it was: and then, happily, we had our own work to do, and could hold something of the impersonal attitude of the doctors at their work. One of the men we evacuated was the colonel of one of our regiments, a ge...