RESCUED BY A NURSE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 28 September 1915, Page 4

RESCUED BY A NURSE.

A war correspondent of the Dutch: newspaper Algemen Handelsblad tells in a dispatch, which he dates from the British front in Flanders, the following story of an English nurse:— ""After the terrible life at the front I was now far fom the tenches, and I was walking albng a sunken road when,, rounding a curve, I suddenly. saw a> bent figure slowly moving forward; It' was a girl of not more than 23 years of age, carrying on her shoulder a young English infantry man. The' young man had been shot through the shoulder, and after a preliminary dressing of the wound had been told : to go to the nearest field hospital. But, taking a wrong turning, he had lost hisway, and had wandered on along lanes and by-paths until he collapsed ami fainted. "In this state the >oung woman—it. was an English nurse —accidentallyfound him. As it was at least half an hour's walk to the nearest field hospital, she decided to carry him there. The brave and resolute girl readily accepted my assistance. We utilised my overcoat as a stretcher, and thus we carried: our wounded man together to the hospital. After receiving a. satisfactory report from the doctor the. young girl proceeded once more on her walk."