Identifier: 01120440R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: At the front in a flivver
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, William Yorke, 1878- author
Subjects: Stevenson, William Yorke, 1878- Voluntary Workers Ambulances World War I
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if they hit the batteries, they miss us. Im(personally) quite unpatriotic when theyrefiring! Our squad was called out again at 2 a.m.There had been two Boche attacks onFleury. Incidentally, theyd landed on themagazine at Belrupt and the thing wasgoing off like a set of fireworks. It keptup all night, as the fire could not be con-trolled and spread from one store of shellsand powder to another. The attacks werestopped none the less; but Peter dis-tinguished himself by pulling a brand-newkind of bonehead trick. In pushing his carfrom the stand behind the abri to thedoor to take on blesses, he let it getaway from him, and instead of grabbingthe steering-wheel or the brake he triedto hold it back by hand. The thingquietly but firmly toppled over the bankinto the ravine below. Luckily no one wasin it or under it, as the spot it landed onwas just on the edge of a cemetery and,mirabile dictu, the car was uninjured; butHuts Townsend was so provoked thathe threatened to have Peter recalled to
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THE BATTLE FOR FLEURY 195 Paris. I dont blame him, as we need everycar badly. How we got it up on the roadagain, I dont yet know. It took about halfof Joffres army and most of the Ameri-can Ambulance to do it, by lifting andhauling with the aid of many expletivesboth French and English. This morningwe were all set to washing cars, as thereis a rumor that the head of the Auto Ser-vice is coming to inspect us. A2 Squad hastherefore had no sleep now for twenty-fourhours and is on duty again to-night and to-morrow night. Cheerful outlook. If somemore bones arent pulled during thenext forty-eight hours it will certainly besurprising. September 4. The last entry in my diaryproved only too correct. For three daysthere has been heavy fighting aroundFleury and the French got over a thousandprisoners. We have been going steadily.First of all, Jack McFadden turned upconvoying two new men (Lindsay andDarden, both Southerners), two new cars,and a big White truck and kitchen trailer.They used the t

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