To the Editor, Amman Valley Chronicle,
Sir, - Seeing your paper every week out here, which is one of my chief comforts to read some news from home and the local district, and also the experiences of some of the local boys in the trenches, I think a letter from one of the boys from the district that is attached to the R. A. M. C. would be a little change, as it is an absolutely different kind of work.
Our work is very dangerous, as we have got to go to the trenches and then carry the wounded back under great German shell fire. But on we go, with only one object, that is, to get the wounded back safe under shelter. The boys, while carrying the patients, are up to their knees in water and mud, and it is very uncomfortable to move along the fields.
After arriving back the wounded are attended to by our doctors, who try to make them as comfortable as possible, and then they are sent down to the Base on our motor ambulances. There were some heavy artillery duels out here only yesterday. . . . and received very serious wounds.
Our advanced dressing station being only 100 yards away, a message for help was immediately sent for, and without any delay off went ten of our bays to render first-aid to the wounded and bring them back safe under cover. During the whole time that they were dressing the wounds of the unfortunate men the Huns were still shelling the vicinity.
Our boys were congratulated on their coolness and pluck for such a daring venture by an officer of the R. F. A., to which the wounded men were attached. Our boys are made of the best Welsh stuff, and if no distinctions come our way we shall at least have the satisfaction of knowing that we have done our very best to alleviate the suffering of our wounded comrades during this terrible war. – Yours, &c.,
48196 Lce-Cpl. GEO. THOMAS,
B Section, 130 Field Ambulance
(St. John) B. E. F., France.
P.S. – We are about twenty boys from local districts in this Company, and we are all merry and bright under the circumstances
