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Title: Ambulance no. 10 : personal letters from the front
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Buswell, Leslie, 1890- author
Subjects: Buswell, Leslie, 1890- American Field Service Voluntary Workers Ambulances World War I
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told us we weredoing. Pont-a-Mousson was in the hands of 6 AMERICAN AMBULANCE the Germans for five days and our Head-quarters were the German Officers Head-quarters. The French partially blew upthe bridge which crosses the Moselle atthis most picturesque point, and for thelast five days the Germans have beenbombarding it, attempting in their turnto destroy it; many of the houses round itseem to have been hit, and the two placeswhere shells have taken most effect are onthe bridge the French have repaired withwood. The boys tell me it is a wonderfulsight to see the water rising like a geyserwhen the shells hit in the river. To showhow careless the few remaining peasantsare, directly the Germans have appar-ently ceased firing, they get into boats topick up the fish killed in hundreds by theconcussion. We left the river (where wecould be clearly seen by the Germans en-trenched some thousand metres away),and I confess I sighed in relief — for it isdifficult to accustom ones self immedi-
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TRENCH WORK FIELD SERVICE 7 ately to the possibility of receiving abullet in ones head or a shell in onesstomach. We then went through the town,everywhere being told stories of how, onsuch and such a day last week, five menwere killed there and three wounded here,etc. All the houses are left open, and onecan walk into any doorway that looksinteresting and do a tour of inspection.We left Pont-a-Mousson and started upthe hill to our first place de secour — X —you will see it on your map some three kilometres from Pont-a-Mous-son. Roeder, as we sped on, carefullyexplained that I was never to drive alongthis particular road, but was to take aback way, as the Commandant had for-bidden any one to use this route whichwas in full view of the German artilleryand trenches. If he could have realizedhow I felt, he would have taken me by theback way that time too. 8 AMERICAN AMBULANCE On the other side of the hill on our rightextended the famous Bois-le-Pretre; butit is no longer a wood — it

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