Oh what a sight we seemed to have lived through...

Lucy Sinton Kelly

Nurse during the First World War

[…] the sights we saw were shocking, refugees flying away trains full of them & also walking along roads, streams of them continuously. We got to Amiens at 5.30 & what a wreck of a place & what a railway station with people & luggage.

We heard that an awful raid had happened the day before 60 ariel torpoeds [sic] dropped so I tell you with what we had seen all day & were hearing we did not feel at all happy in Amiens Station when it was getting dark I’ve also met lots of wounded coming down in trucks. Oh what a sight we seemed to have lived through […]