Letter · 7 Jan 1916 · Ismalia, Egypt
Scared to death
Extracts from this letter
"The Turks gave us 48 hours notice to move the hospital ... but we like fools, (pardon) took no notice of the threat..."
"We were all scared to death, when we heard the first shells coming & absolutely terrified when they burst. They were the biggest shells the Turks had ever put over & the burst sounded like an awful ripping of the air - it was too awful for words...."
"By the time they had finished the whole of the station was blown to pieces. ... A man's leg & foot landed just outside our tent & there were pieces of man everywhere. I hope you don't mind this class of talk we are all used to it nowadays - its a case of the survival of the luckiest over there..."
"...we returned to business with badly shaken nerves & I'm not ashamed to own it. Nobody could possibly stomach it."
