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Title: Field Hospital and Flying Column
Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia

Author: Violetta Thurstan

Release Date: January 23, 2006 [eBook #17587]

Language: English

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FIELD HOSPITAL AND FLYING COLUMN

Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia

by

VIOLETTA THURSTAN

London and New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons
1915
First Impression April 1915

M. R.

_Allons! After the great Companions, and to belong to them.
They too are on the road.
They are the swift and majestic men, they are the greatest women.
They know the universe itself as a road, as many roads,
As roads for travelling souls.
Camerados, I will give you my hand,
I give you my love more precious than money.
Will you give me yourselves, will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?_

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL 1

II. CHARLEROI AND ROUND ABOUT 16

III. OUR HOSPITAL AND PATIENTS 37

IV. THE RETURN TO BRUSSELS 53

V. A MEMORABLE JOURNEY 76

V