WOUNDED REACH LONDON

Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 8

WOUNDED REACH LONDON

BUSY HOURS AT WALTON

CHEERFUL AND COMFORTABLE,

LONDON", Sept. 26. Tile resumption of the offensive on the Somme, with the participation of New\ Zealand troops, has brought in its wake. Miothey rush of -work for the War Contingent-Association and its hundred official "visitors. One nio-ht last week the .whole railway station at Walton was crammed with our wounded from the front, and during the whole oort r the hours the ambulances were running- to and fro between the station; and the hospital. while a detachment, onurses- and .helpers from thp, institution 'took up their stations in the railwav ibuildings to provide refreshment and dressing for the men.until they could ' foe transported- to the wards. A visit was made to the hospital'early next -morning by Sir Thomas Mackenzie. *'AH nijrht our'helpers had been 'bringino- in the wounded from the railway station." he said, "and bv this time tverv spare yard of the hospital was occupied by our brave lads. I met our valued- C:0. (Colonel T. Mill). He was looking anxious, whiich. was only to i>e expected, but he was still as kindly as fever. A sister took me through the •ward* in. which our boys had 'been dispersed ; and I found them in various conditions, but without exception cheerful and r-omfortable in their surroundings.- I chat-ted with' many of the™, m<iTj?rir.cr their names and what pirt of 2?«w. Zealand thev came from. Some •were so -weak tint thev cou.'d only whisper, but thev all made light of their wounds, thonghtbe sisters told me how eerious some of them were. —Herald correspondent.