Innumerable bandages and various instruments were piled neatly on the white covered tables; and in the outer room, which was used as the office, were the record books and tags with which the wounded were labelled as they were sent off to the Base.

Far off we could hear the noise of the shells, and occasionally one would fall in the town.

When the ambulances (p.

141) arrived everyone would be on the alert.

I used to go out and stand in the darkness, and see the stretchers carried in gently and tenderly by the bearers, who laid them on the floor of the outer room.