Geoffrey Bell Hughes diary, 1 January 1916-31 December 1916 - Page 137
Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 137]
& devotion to duty in recent military operations.
24 August 1916 Thur
It is midnight whilst I writing these few lines. I am sitting on a box of dressings & McGee is stretched out on some newspapers having sat my feet having long since gone to sleep. I received letters from home & Pongo Fay to-day. Ridge one of our bearers has received the military medal for distinguished service [text continued at top of page]
25 August 1916 Fri
Letters from Jay & from home. Sorry to hear that Dad is so unwell. I did some washing during the morning after coming home from Walroy where I spent an enjoyable morning. There are now in hospital resting some five hundred patients. Slept after dinner till tea time. Visited the American Bar several times throughout the night.
[Note in margin]
Very sick to night a bad billious attack.