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Updated: June 12, 2025
Down these the stretchers are beginning to pass, having been raised from below decks by cunning mechanical devices which cause no jar; and are being conveyed into the cool shade of the dock-shed. Here they are laid in neat rows upon the platform, ready for transfer to the waiting hospital train. Everything is a miracle of quietness and order.
They, therefore, inaugurated the change in befitting style. On the whole, no explosive has ever been invented that is so noisy in its effect, so furiously expansive in its action, as the fumes of cheap whiskey. The great dock-shed soon began to reverberate to the wildest clamor, which added to the fury of the crowd outside.
They are tended with exactly the same care as the others. Where wounded men are concerned, the British Medical Service is strictly neutral. A wounded Corporal of the R.A.M.C. turns his head and gazes thoughtfully at one of those grey men. "You understand English, Fritz?" he enquires. Apparently not. Fritz continues to stare woodenly at the roof of the dock-shed.
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