Such was the World War. The boy who fell where first aid could be administered to him quickly was very fortunate. The majority of the wounded men lay in the woods or fields for hourseven days, unattended and in constant pain. |
No one who passed through one of these was ever the same againphysically or mentally. This is the 308th Field Hospital, 77th Division, receiving and dressing the wounded, La Chalade, in the Argonne Forest, September 28, 1918. |