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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k of — birdsflit through the broken windows and therain drops dismally on the floor. Most ofthe images are smashed, but the big stonefont is still intact. The old graveyard be-side it is just a tangled mass of stones andweeds, while the new soldiers graveyardwas placed in two huge shell holes thesides of which have been graded like steps,and neat little crosses bear the records ofthe dead. Some fifty or more found placesin the two holes, and yet there was re-spectable space between each grave andaround the edges. Back to Villers-Bre-tonneux with the wounded and back atCappy by 8 a.m.; the slowness due toweather and congested roads. Shoals of Senegalese are passing towardthe Front, and it certainly looks as if theoffensive was coming soon. The Russianvictory in Galicia is said to be merely adiversion to help Italy just now and thereal offensive has not even begun. I got stopped by what looked like thewhole General Staff on the road to-day.They all had so many stripes it looked like i
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PREPARING FOR BATTLE 95 a flock of zebras. A trooper had fallen offhis horse and hit his head and they or-dered me to carry the unconscious man toVillers-Bretonneux. The car was alreadyfull, but I piled him in and took him alongto save argument. Of course I had ahideous time at the hospital at Villers,not having a ticket for him. Nobody couldtake him in for an hour or so — the usualred-tape. The brancardiers tell me they havegreat difficulty with the wounded negroes,as they cannot explain how they feel; alsothe climate is very hard on them. The French camion drivers tell methat their well-known makes, such as Pan-hard, Fiat, Berliet, Renault, etc., are un-able to put in the same high-grade ma-terial in their cars as before the war, andthat the American cars are regarded asquite as good if not better — especiallythe Pierce-Arrow, which is making quitea name for itself both here and in Russia.Five hundred of them passed here in longtrains yesterday. I hear we are going to be shifted

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