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my old job of loading.
A few words apropos the British Hospital trains, they are very beautifully & comfortably fitted up & carry about seven hundred patients when fully loaded. They are of the "Bogy" pattern & connected for communication from one end of the train to the other, each carriage takes thirty six stretcher cases on provided bunks in 3 tiers lengthways each side of the carriage, the train is fitted up with a Kitchen, despensary & all other confeniences & is fitted throughout with eletric heaters & fans & alltogether are much superior to the French trains.
It occupied the space of four hours to load our wounded into the train yesterday.
Sun Aug 20th
Still occupied in unloading stretcher cases from the motor cars as they arrive here.
In the afternoon we closed up again & evacuated to a train a very beautiful one called after the doner "The Princess Christain hospital train a very handsome gift.