AMONG THE WOUNDED.
"When I opened my eyes there were strangers round me who lifted me on to a hay-wagon," said a wounded German who gives Ms experiences in the diary of an Alsatian soldier published ia the Berliner Tageblatt. "'. .' . This journey on the hay-cart was one of the worst experiences of my life. ' Not be cause of what I suffered myself, but because of the suffering of others which I had to share and witness. A non-com-missioned officer lay near me. His right foot below the knee had been torn away. He wept in delirium.'
"Hundi'eds of flies came and settled on one's face, and although one drove them away & hundred times they always returned again. When you are Wounded you see how damned cheap life is, and how little the individual Jifn counts. Only the masiiesi count in the bal«nre, .the individual must look after himseli."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 20
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148AMONG THE WOUNDED. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 20
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