dical Services,
First Army, July 1917 to April 1919._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. IN CAMP BEFORE THE WAR 1

II. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 11

III. THE JOURNEY UP TO THE FRONT 19

IV. BEHIND THE TRENCHES 27

V. IN THE TRENCHES 35

VI. THE TYPHOID WARDS 41

VII. THE ZEPPELIN RAID 49

VIII. CONCERNING BATHS, "JOLIE-ANNETTE," "MARIE-MARGOT" AND ST.
INGLEVERT 59

IX. TYPHOIDS AGAIN, AND PARIS IN 1915. 70

X. CONCERNING A CONCERT, CANTEEN WORK, HOUSEKEEPING, THE ENGLISH
CONVOY, AND GOOD-BYE, LAMARCK. 88

XI. THE ENGLISH CONVOY 111

XII. THE PASSING OF THE LITTLE LORRY, "OLD BILL" AND "'ERB" AT
AUDRICQ 129

XIII. CONVOY LIFE 152

XIV. CHRISTMAS, 1916 176

XV. CONVOY PETS, COMMANDEERING, AND THE "FANTASTIKS" 197

XVI. THE LAST RIDE 216

XVII. HOSPITALS: FRANCE AND ENGLAND 240

XVIII. ROEHAMPTON: "BOB" THE GREY, AND THE ARMISTICE 267

XIX. AFTER TWO YEARS 283

FANNY GOES TO WAR

CHAPTER I

IN CAMP BEFORE THE WAR

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was founded in 1910 and now numbers
roughly about four hundred voluntary members.

It was originally intended to supplement the R.A.M.C. in field work,
stretcher bearing, ambulance driving, etc.--its duties being more or
less embodied in the title.

An essential point was that each member should be able to ride bareback
or otherwise, as much difficulty had been found in transporting nurses
from one place to another on the veldt in the South African War. Men had
often died through lack of attention, as the country was too rough to
permit of anything but a saddle horse to pass.

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