THE
FIRST CANADIANS
IN FRANCE
THE CHRONICLE OF A MILITARY
HOSPITAL IN THE WAR ZONE
BY
F. McKELVEY BELL
ILLUSTRATED BY
CHRISTOPHER FULLEYLOVE
MCCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART
PUBLISHERS :: :: :: :: :: TORONTO
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
SURGEON-GENERAL GUY CARLETON JONES, C.M.G.
AND TO
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL SERVICES OVERSEAS
THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED
The wise and skillful guidance of the former and the efficient
fulfilment of onerous duties by all have given to the Canadian
Medical Service a status second to none in the Empire: The sick
and wounded soldier has been made to feel that a Military Hospital
may be not only a highly scientific institution—but a Home.
PREFACE
In glancing through these pages, now thatthey are written, I realise that insufficientstress has been laid upon the heroism andself-sacrifice of the non-commissioned officers andmen of the Army Medical Corps—the boyswho, in the dull monotony of hospital life,denied the exhilaration and stimulus of the firingline, are, alas, too often forgotten. All honourto them that in spite of this handicap they giveof their best, and give it whole-heartedly totheir stricken comrades.
The pill of fact herein is but thinly coatedwith the sugar of fiction, but if the reader canget a picture, however indefinite, of militaryhospital life in France, these pages will nothave been written altogether in vain.
F. McK B.
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