The day was so bright it made one feel happy to be alive...
Lucy Sinton Kelly
Nurse during the First World War
Most beautiful day we could hope for we were all feeling a bit shaky after our previous bombing & shelling but the day was so bright it made one feel happy to be alive. I took a stool in corridor to let the sun get at my hair when suddenly a most awful crash & I was flung off.
As I tried to rise I was banged down again I was quite certain it was bombs & then Sister Hepburn emerged blood streaming from her brow where she had been thrown up against her box. We then found out we had a collision. Troop train had run into us & it was worse damaged than we were. We brought pts* one was very badly wounded but others were more shaken.
We left two coaches behind & continued our journey, we all had slight bruises & much shaken, we continued our journey to Doullens & from there to C.C.S. further along do not know name of place we loaded 4am Monday & it took us until 7p.m.that night to get to Camiers, we had an awful bad load & stretchers everywhere & Pts in every whole & corner. We unloaded & went to Le Treport for an evacuation to Trouville.
*Pts - patients
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