Item 13: Archie Barwick diary, 25 April-19 June 1918 - Page 71
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trains & ships are recorded, this contains a Field Medical Card on which diagnoses notes & injections are recorded, all wounded receive an anti tetanus injection to guard against lockjaw.
Next comes the trip in the hospital train to the base, practically hospitals on wheels with wards Dr. Sisters, orderlies, cooks, these trains are very comfortable although they suffer from the usual faults of French trains slow speed & frequent halts
The chief interest for the wounded man in the base hospital lies in his chances for Blighty, though slightly wounded are kept there for recovery, everyone no matter how slight his wound, sweats on & hopes for Blighty, raising his hopes with the Army legends of men who have got across with boils on a festered finger, at last the Blighty Dr. comes & examines everyone, leaving