A V.A.D. in France.

  • Dent, Olive
Date:
1917
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A V.A.D. in France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAMP NURSING THE first day's duty in a camp hospital is a perplexing, nonplussing affair. Primarily, I wasn't certain where I was. For a bird's eye view of the camp would have revealed a forest of marquees and a webbing of tent- ropes. The marquees sometimes clustered so close that the ropes of two roofs on the adjoining side were not pegged to the ground, but were tied overhead, the one to the other, so supporting each other and saving space. Between such dual marquees was a tarpau- lin passage, usually spoken of as a tunnel. Each row of marquees was known as a line, and named as a letter in the alphabet. Thus A line consisted of eight or nine tents, known as Al, A2, A3, and so on. All these marquees were exactly alike, and as we nurses passed from one to the other several
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