DIY History | Transcribe | World War I Diaries and Letters | Louise Liers correspondence album, 1911-1919

Transcribe
Translate

Louise Liers correspondence album, 1911-1919

1918-11-24 Page 2

that it could be Hoboken. 
Now I'll tell you a little more about the hospital here altho that shouldnt really go into a Christmas letter. If you have a map of France you can look up Nevers or Moulins on the map and our hospital is about half-way between. This is the largest hospital in the world. It consists of many units like ours each one of which was supposed to take care of about 500 patients but during the recent drive it was between 2000 & 3000 for each unit. Each unit has 20 long brick or frame wards of 50 beds each and in addition two tents of 35 beds so you see we have had plenty to do. As I have told you before, the boys are wonderful - very brave and very helpful. When I see their horrible wounds or worse still their mustard gas burns or the gassed patients who will never again be able to do a whole days work - I lose every spark of sympathy for the beasts who devised such tortures and called it warfare - Last week we were in Moulins when a train of children from the devastated districts came down - burned & gassed - and that was the most pitiful sight of all.

Saving...

that it could be Hoboken. Now I'll tell you a little more about the hospital here altho that shouldnt really go into a Christmas letter. If you have a map of France you can look up Nevers or Moulins on the map and our hospital is about half-way between. This is the largest hospital in the world. It consists of many units like ours each one of which was supposed to take care of about 500 patients but during the recent drive it was between 2000 & 3000 for each unit. Each unit has 20 long brick or frame wards of 50 beds each and in addition two tents of 35 beds so you see we have had plenty to do. As I have told you before, the boys are wonderful - very brave and very helpful. When I see their horrible wounds or worse still their mustard gas burns or the gassed patients who will never again be able to do a whole days work - I lose every spark of sympathy for the beasts who devised such tortures and called it warfare - Last week we were in Moulins when a train of children from the devastated districts came down - burned & gassed - and that was the most pitiful sight of all.