FROM NURSE MAY WILSON. OF DUNEDIN HOSPITAL.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 84

FROM NURSE MAY WILSON. OF DUNEDIN HOSPITAL.

[ You "will see that I am now m France. I came over here under the Red Cross and St. Johns. This hospital is organised and financed by Lady Hadfield, I believe, but is under the above Society and somehow under the control of the War Office. Vrinereux and Boulogue are full of hospitals for the British wounded. There is an Australasian one not far from here, but I believe it is to be closed down soon, and also several others. This one is to be then taken over by the War Office and to be run m conjunction with one just oppo.site us, for Anglo-Indian troops. The wounded are not kept here long. As soon as possible they are sent to England by hospital ships. We are not at all busy just now, but I do not think there can be much fighting going on at the front at present. We have had frightfully wet weather ever since my arrival m England, which makes hardships for the soldiers. I suppose the fighting will begin m earnest soon when Lord Kitchener's army is over. He is credited with saying that the war has not begun yet. We are just three miles out from Boulogne, on the coast, and are connected by electric trams. We went m this morning and had a look at the town, and saw the Cathedral and another old church. There are a number of French soldiers about, but they look very slovenly compared to our men. They say they are all to be dressed m khaki soon, too, which will be an improvement/