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The
building was a large Catholic College |
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Staff
of Belgian Field Hospital |
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Staff
of Floor H, Antwerp. Note the Boy Scouts . |
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The
quaint Hotel de Ville of Furnes, dating from 1582, was King Albert's
headquarters |
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Dunkerque
is a wonderful city |
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The
Munro Ambulance Corps-Lady Dorothy Feilding in foreground |
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Refugee
nuns peeled potatoes and washed dishes . |
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The
Curé |
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Miss
McNaughton |
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That
clergyman was a great sport |
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Arab
Sheiks with flowing garments |
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A jolly
couple |
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We
had one wonderful case---a major's---the surgeons cut out twelve
feet of intestines and he made an excellent recovery |
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Stretchers
arrived constantly, borne by Red Cross orderlies |
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We
took over the operation-theatre |
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We
used to make them welcome in the theatre |
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In
the sacred precincts of a ruined church a lone figure kneels
at vespers |
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All
they had to face was a desolated country and ruined homes |
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We
were obliged to take two small class-rooms, scattering straw
on the floor |
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Patients
from the Officers' Ward |
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Nailing
up festoons of bunting and holly |
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At
a cemetery in a village near by we buried her . |
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Maurice---he
was the sunniest fellow |
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Jean
Lassoux |
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Joseph
was a dear boy |
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A large
ward, one of the big class-rooms |
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We
were now in the Belgian Military Hospital |
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Madame
Curie presented to King Albert in the hospital grounds |
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Radio
Ambulance-Madame Curie at rear |
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Hospital
nursing stag with matron in centre |
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Sleeping
out in an open field |
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I sent
home for a tent |
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Another
pastime was riding |
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Their
horses were superb |
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One