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Letter 4
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31–3–18
Easter Sunday Morning.
Dear Mother;
I am going to church at 11:15 a.m. for I am so terribly tired. We are awfully busy, nearly
killed since this last rush: if this war does not soon end there won’t be a man living on the face of
the earth. It is brutal, it is cold-blooded murder; it is hell upon earth. Oh! If you could only see
and go through what we do mother [sic]; it is enough to drive one mad.
VAD printed propaganda, n.d.
Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL P5-21), St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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I am on night duty in the Compound. I shall never forget these days. Convoys
are coming in all night long; patients are [? word illegible] in the midst
of it. I have four wards worth with a little help once in a while; if this rush
continues, some of us will give out altogether.
I came back from “leave” five nights ago; arriving at Rouen 8 p.m. Matron sent me on
night duty at 10 p.m. same night: oh! My head was so heavy from travelling: had been on
train two days, the second night on train I did not sleep at all, it was so cold.
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VAD members on leave, n.d.
Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL P50-C1), St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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From the train I went on duty at 10 p.m., I did not stop a minute until 8 a.m. next morning, except to
have a cup of tea at 12 p.m.
VAD members having tea, n.d.
Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL P7-A1), St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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I say again this war is simply horrible. What a blessing some of these boys [sic] mothers do not
see their husbands and sons.
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