A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo

Author:Michael Morpurgo [Morpurgo, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-05-31T12:00:00+00:00

Within a few months I was out in Belgium, not France as it turned out, posted to a hospital a few miles behind the lines. Here we heard for the first time the rumble and pounding of the guns, theirs and ours, a dreadful overture of the horrors that were to come. We were near Ypres, outside a town called Poperinge. Almost at once we found ourselves looking after soldiers with dreadful wounds, dying soldiers. You cannot imagine the sights I saw, Michael, nor do I want you even to try to imagine them. Many nights I cried myself to sleep, and wondered how I could face the suffering I would have to witness again the next morning. I wrote every day to Mary and she always wrote back to me, her letters full of encouragement and love.

As I sat by the bedside, holding a dying soldier by the hand, trying to give what comfort I could, I could honestly feel Mary there beside me, helping me through it all. Some of the boys would ask me to write a letter home to a sweetheart or a mother. Often it was a last letter. I think they just wanted to feel that someone loved them.

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