AWM41 989 - [Nurses Narratives] Sister Kellick - Part 3

You had loved baths - hot 

bath every night - good bathrooms

lived in huts - electric lights.

In Summer (& Winter too) everyone
May 12 

slept out -

We had oil stoves in our rooms

this Winter - In men Room 2

stoves  - charcoal & wood

3 [[?]] nights a wk till 10

our late pass till 11.30 a week & go

to concerts around -
we were not suppose to go to men

in officer [[messes?]]

Too often went to show up the line

We had to get passes from AANS.

June the stunt when Bulgaria

went back we got up much

easier - we were 5 miles from

Ismalia. 1 mile from trains.

[[Swimming?ing]] to [[?Mikra]] Bay & the harbour

[[swimming?]]. ½ hour by car.

29^thJune had swimming [[?]] sheds - water

however not g.

In Nov little [[?]] British 2 wks -did

not work with in came socially

in contact with them.

The Aust. units did not have

much to do with each other.

very few occasions [[?]] exchanging

xxx most [[?]] men.

[[P?]] trouble for a time but [[?]] being

one orderly to a ward - [[?]]45 beds.

1 ward matron to 15 wards

1 orderly to each ward - except special

ward.

At one time all the D.I. [[casualties?]]

put into a special ward (an

apalling [[?]]) The work in

 

10

their ward was awful. Cases dying [[?]]

course constantly - 4 - 8 deaths a day

[An appalling & ghastly idea A.G.H.]

It was impossible to properly treat the

cases they were so bad & so many

of them -

There was a good deal of Malaria in the

quarters. Most got Influenza etc

the outbreak - many [[ill?]] in a week.

1500 patients & 20 Sisters it [[?]]

[[?]] - (free time & [[??]])

About 20 of these went in 12 months were

[[transferred?]] to Australia - boarded at

43^rd General.

All the sick sisters went to 43^rd General.

there was no chance of a sick Austn

being nursed in an Aust. trench -

It was a great treat for Aust Sistersto go to

the 43^rd.

All British officers - O/C Col McLachlan

Col A[[?]]. Col Crawford - Col Waring

[I met Col Waring - with men [[?]]units]

We had concerts in the xx open air theatre

left by the Canadians. the whole Hospital

got to it -

Col Waring offered the concerts in the [[?theatre]]

but allowed only [[in?]] wards.

We walked the patient - they then were allowed

out without a sister - 2-300 at a time!!

Our troops had a rotten turn in [[Jul?]] the

only place for leave was [[Coy?]] camp.

Many troops [[out?]] 3 pm & to no leave

[[?]] [[?]] [[?]]

Officers could get 3-4 op a month to

Ismalia & cd do what they liked

 

Kalamaria                [[?Tented]]

42 at [[?]] Feb 1917-1918

Openly m[[?]] had a center by a tunnel

I had [[?now ?]] we had to be [[? ?]] several times

was [[? ?]]Dump! terrible ward - snow

Frozen - couldnt hold [[thermoneters]]

I went in gum boots

& my walk [[?]]. [[?]] to [[?ship]]

tried to knees

All nurses in Bell tents. [[?]]

Tent ward -

[[?]] were the [[?]] [[one trench?]]

Hot water

For [[?]] By [[?]] - not hot water trays for the

food.

Hut for Cookhouse [[?]]

[[?]] tent unlined - [[?]] tarpaulins [[?]]

a nice hut.

[[?]] [[?]] poor- 12.50 [[?]] a

mantle we put in.

New men in job were awful at first

Bully & biscuits the trouble was

the fare &

When we got there first you often

went to bed [[?]] with hunger.
lot Nurse trainees were at their wards
then.
Left [[war?]] & [[?]] at [[first?]] but finally
[[?]]