His was the first terribly mangled body that I had ever seen.

He was laid face downwards on a stretcher and borne away.

At that moment a soldier came up and told me that one of the officers with whom I had entered the town about half an hour ago had been killed, and his body had been taken to a British ambulance in the city.

I walked across the Square, and there I saw the stretcher-bearers carrying off some civilians who had been hit by splinters of the shell.

In the hospital were many dead bodies and wounded men for there had been over one hundred casualties in the city that day.