Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 072   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)

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2016 July 14 Sutton Veny p.1-2
Written on some kind of medical, perhaps prescription form, printed with
REQUIRED FOR
...and "Ethel Conybeare, 1 hour's rest"
Needed badly, "guess, GUESS what I've been doing - Nursing Germans!"
236 German prisoners taken in, all one side of hospital.
Germans mostly pretty badly wounded. Armed sentries, fixed bayonets, everywhere.
"Some poor wretches are horribly mutiliated - the wounds make me simply
mentally and physically sick"
"I feel most horribly sorry for them, sick and wounded and prisoners in a
strange land"


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 072   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)