Ten Years Ago Today, item 26

• December 13, 2016 05:04:28 Sue Bryant

  
  

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  After getting another dressing at the Field

  Aid post I was transferred from one place to

  another until I reached the Base Hospital at

  Abbeville. How long it took me to get there I

  don’t know. That part of it seems all like

  a dream to me now. The events leading up to

  the casualty are as clear as in my mind

  as if it only happened yesterday but afterwards

  I am very hazy. I think perhaps I dozed part

  of the day. I was given a big mug of hot

  tea and rum at the Field Aid post and in

  all probability on top of the whiskey I was more

  or less muzzy until I found myself in

  Abbeville Hospital.

                  I saw my Colonel on the way down & I

  must confess I shed a few tears when he patted

  me on the good shoulder & tried to buck me up.

  I expected to get a ragging for not doing the job

  better. And I’ll whisper to you now that he did actually

  recommend me for a Military Cross for what I had

  done. But I had done nothing – and I never got the

  Cross so I am all square on that account.

                  Two of my officers, the dear old Chaplain &

  my Major rode down to see me at the first big

  Field Hospital – series of marquees with hundreds

  of cases on stretchers waiting for treatment. They were

  very kind and sent letters to your dear mummy

  explaining what had happened, so she knew before

  the telegram arrived from the War Office.

  
  

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