Part 02: Dene Barrett Fry letters, 17th May 1915-16 April 1917 - Page 54
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I'm not amongst the suffering in the wards. The wounded chaps are in various stages of getting worse and better. Some are as lively as crickets, others are helpless as babies. Their wounds are too awful for description and their suffering too morbid to dwell upon. There are 7 operations to day – 2 amputations. When one of the men was coming to after the op. he went through all the actions of a man charging, and certainly gave us a fine display of trench language. His idea of the Turk's pedigrees and social position though, were too much for the nurse, "who told an orderly to sit on his chest. But its' all "very terrible, and the poor chaps are always upset when they hear what they have said & done while under the anaesthetic, but more than that, are