They Were There by Langford William

Author:Langford, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

German and Allied wounded soldiers lie side by side in this make-shift hospital.

Every morning the German sentries used to come in and talk to us. Our German was very weak, but we managed to get along all right. Downstairs those who were lightly wounded sat outside in the chairs they took from the house in the sunny garden. It was a fairly luxurious house, with notepaper marked ‘F.H.’ I thought it was a girls’ school, for the only books we could find were the Berger de Valence and Jules Verne.

My side was painful the first few days. Then they cut me open and took out the fragments of the bullet, which was in bits. It was rather hard lines on the others to have operations performed in the room, but I felt much better after it. The food difficulty was rather acute. There was very little of it and what there was was badly cooked. We lived principally on thick, un-leavened biscuits.

Some among the captured wounded men began to give trouble. There was, of course, nobody in command of them. There was an ex-comedian who was particularly tiresome. We even had to ask the Germans to punish one particular man for us. About the fourth day one of the orderlies escaped, a man called Drummer McCoy. He passed for four days through the German lines, and on one occasion watched a whole Army Corps go by from the boughs of a tree. Then he found the French, who passed him on to the English, where he went to the Staff and told them of us. That is how we were picked up so quickly on the 11 September.

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