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very good efforts to get the bridge. The No 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital is at Outreaux, outside Boulogne; and we had a long Ambulance journey through the town to reach it. The driver told us that the Germans have been doing severe bombing and caught a fleet of Ambulances the other night on the road from Calais to Boulogne. Just by the hospital is a building that has been bombed; but we have had peace so far since I came. One of our nurses, a rich American girl, supplies the ward with cigarettes & fruit and strawberries & cream, even.
I am getting tired of bed; but they won't let me out, and indeed, I shake when I get out; but I can't sleep much, and the feeling of restlessness which got me in the line, irritates me a lot, specially when I have nothing to read, & the lights are out. I am marked for England; and I understand the doctor regards my case as serious; but none of them seem to make out what it is. One doctor & the Major have been in three times & sat on the bed and asked endless questions. I think, myself, that my condition is just a result of overstrain – carrying on while I was sick, and then trying to do too much when I was really exhausted. The boys were very good to me in the line when
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