Series 02: Anne Donnell diary, 29 December 1917 - 31 January 1919 - Page 30

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January 6 Sunday
Those wretched visits from Fritz when he knocks overhead with his z –z. z.z & then leaves his Cards (as the boys say) At 4 a.m. my now trained ear detected the z -. It made me feel faint & I went & stood by a very sick boy who was awake and waited. Only a few seconds & then those terrific crashes – the things all rattled down from the walls. It's awful. The Patient, wakened and 'What was that Sister? The very ill ones were too ill to take much notice for which I was thankful. I didden't tremble, but literally shook for 10 minutes – and how I went around my 54 boys to see how they

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