I succeeded in getting together a certain number of women who helped as best they could to aid the wounded. It was not a matter of amputations or operations of any kind. But food, and above all drink, had to be taken around to men dying of hunger and thirst; then their wounds could be dressed and their bodies washed. . Oh, how valuable it would have been . to have had a hundred experienced and qualified voluntary orderlies and nurses! . As it was, there was no time for those who knew their business to give the needful advice and guidance, and most of those who brought.
