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trenches only four hours ago others about 10 or fifteen hours ago & it thus shows how prompt the dispatch is at the actual front for the distance from this C.C.S. to the trenches would be roughly from 25 to 30 miles & there is the advanced dressing post & the A.D.S. to go through before reaching this station
The staff here numbers about two hundred & fifty & the CCS that adjoins & releives this one has about the same number on their staff.
At 1 oclock we closed the station to incoming wounded and started to conduct the evacuation & placed roughly four hundred casualties on the hospital train consisting of sitting and stretcher cases the rain comming down in heavy showers all the time.
Saturday July 19th
Having again opened the Station to receive the casualties while the other station to closed up to evacuate their wounded to another hospital train I with the others went on to