A NEW FORM OF RED-CROSS WORK.
The Red-Cross Motor Field Kitchen, under the direction of Miss Jessica Borthwick, dispenses hot soup to the wounded on the battlefield.
Drawn by S. Begg.[ToList]
CHAPTER VIII[ToC]
AT THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS
Regimental Aid Posts—What Night Fighting is Like—The Young Doctor—Making the Grave Bigger—Field Dressing Stations—Where Caution is Required—Where Pluck is Shown—When Does the Doctor Sleep?—Nothing but Tragedy—Those Grand Tommies—Winning a V.C. Clasp—A Dreadful Scene—A Kitchener's Train—Devoted Nurses—The Healthiest War—Preventive Measures—Hospital Ships.
So complete is the organisation of the Red Cross at the front that it is possible to indicate its work in four terms—Regimental Aid Posts, Field Dressing Stations, Clearing Hospitals, Base Hospitals. Add to these the Home Hospitals, to which the men are finally transferred, and you have the work of the Army Medical Organisation at a glance.
During this war the cryptic letters R.A.M.C. and M.S.C. have interpreted themselves into actual glorious service which the British public will ever delight to honour, and it will be borne in mind that most of the Christian ministers who have enlisted during this war, have enlisted into this branch of the service. They bear no arms, but theirs is the highest of all service, that of ministering to the wounded and dying. Such work as this requires heroism of the highest order.
Let us glance at each branch of the work, that the service of the Red Cross may live before us.