He was very touched on parting with me

TCD MS 10853 folio 107 recto

TCD MS 10853 folio 107 recto

bit of pain the few hours following and Eric Dodsworth one of the four who brought me down stayed with me as long as he could. He was very touched on parting with me and he gave me a wrist strap purse which I’m sorry to say I subsequently lost. That was the last I ever saw of him for he was killed not many weeks after.
The ambulances arrived about 300 yds. away at 10 p.m. and after considerable delay I was put in one and endured a terrible two mile run on those wretched roads to Ypres Hospital. Here I was inoculated against lockjaw and spent the night sleeping fairly well on my stretcher. Next day we were put in the ambulances again and went on to Poperinghe, 6 miles away. My wound was