Item 13: Archie Barwick diary, 25 April-19 June 1918 - Page 35
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& then sketches the size of it on your card & away you go, after this little piece of work I was washed & given us dinner & carted away to the operating theatre, I don't remember a great deal of what happened in here only remember the Dr & nurses in their white aprons & rubber gloves, of a formidable array of glasses, knives & etc, I can remember hearing the nurse say smell this, then a great & tremendous banging which gradually sounded fainter & fainter till it died away in the distance then when I came to I was in my bed again & a nurse was bending over me, but what a headache I had everything was spinning round & round & I lapsed again into unconsciousness & I believe I swore a little when coming round so the nurse told me at any