31st May, 1918

Their [American] ways were not ours...

Emma Duffin

VAD Nurse during the First and Second World Wars

We had American sisters attached to us, but none on night duty. None of the day staff thought much of them. Their ways were not ours […] I confess to a feeling of irritation at seeing them hanging from the balcony to wave to the ‘boys’, boasting of what they were going to do.

Two years ago, at the same place we had watched our boys unload and march up the lines. They had ‘done’, and how few had come back to tell us about it or to boast.