Eighteen months in the war zone

_October 21st, London._ It was not without a sense of relief that we watched the hands of the station clock move on to the stroke of six, heard the train doors slam, and cast a...

_November 1st._ It is impossible to keep note of the daily occurrences. Things move too quickly out here--besides, if the spirit is willing the flesh is very exhausted. Neverthe...

Boarding a crowded tram on its way into town, we were fain to avoid the closeness of the over-crowded interior by standing on the conductor's more airy platform. The conductor h...

_December 2nd_. They say that the Germans have been finally driven back, that our men are enjoying a rest from the trenches, that many officers have gone home on forty-eight hou...

_January 1st, 1916._ Each New Year's Day one wonders afresh at the oddness of commencing the year in January, cold January, when all the world is engrossed in recovering from Ch...

_June 11th--Cumberland._ Speaking to a gathering of village folk on work in France, I invited debate. "If King George 'as got wot Kaiser Bill wants, why don't they go and fight...

Yet--even as, looking back at bygone years, it is the little things that count--the branch that taps against the study window, the sickly scent of lime trees, the odd pattern on...

_October 3rd._ All the morning we had been hard at work amongst our _blessés_. It is odd how soon they endear themselves to everyone. There is the little wizened bit of humanity...

_December 2nd._ Each honours list brings us greater surprises than the last, for it seems that a man who runs a military grocer's shop at the Base in perfect security is far mor...

_April 1st._ In spite of the difficulties of getting teams together, the football league has flourished, and to-day we had the great final match between Australians and the A.S....

_March 5th._ March was inaugurated by an amusing incident. At about midnight the alarm was given--a Taube or Zeppelin signalled from Calais--bells rang, guns boomed, the whole o...

_July 1st._ In place of the old hotel, where operations are still being carried on, our new hut has sprung up. The dimensions, let me see, are somewhere about 120 feet by 40 fee...

_May 2nd._ This morning we attended Church Parade at the veterinary camp hard by. The chaplain, who had brought out a recently formed brass band, conducted the service in a larg...

In the following pages Miss Kate Finzi gives in a plain, unvarnished style a terrible and graphic picture of the horrors of war, which have been intensified, as never before, ow...

_February 2nd._ This morning, in company with our chief, Mr. H----, I went over to prospect in the new sphere of action. The lower part of the hotel that the Association has tak...

_September 3rd._ Time has passed so quickly that it is hard to realise that beautiful autumn is already upon us. Yet as the days draw in, lights go on earlier, and our hut grows...

Those graves into which but a year ago we watched the dead being heaped three deep, into which we cast our meagre offering of violets with a wish that those relatives at home mi...

_August 3rd._ Two Canadian A.M.C. orderlies were grousing that they hadn't left God's Own Country to sit twiddling their thumbs in Boulogne. "We volunteered for active service,"...