The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-19
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miles north of Compiegne and but four miles back of the French line.
 We had a telephone connection with the trenches and we could see the flash of bursting shells from our windows, and it was said that of all the hospitals this was the nearest to the hnes,' said pr. Manion. There were 60 beds in the hos pital. It was maintained under French military direction largely by English money. The nurses and orderlies, all most without exception, were persons of wealth, of prominent French and English families, and many of them were titled Two of the nurses were daughters of the Count de Berthune, the owner of the chauteau; another was the Countess de Pange another the Marquse de Cha bannes; another Miss Nevll, grandniece of Lord Beaconsfield: another niece of Casinir Terrier. late President of France. No one on the staff received remunera- ton instead, they contributed from S60 to S200 month for the privilege of doing the tedious, exacting and often unpleas- ant work which is required of nurses and orderlies in every hospital. The ambu- lances were motors belonging to these nurses and orderlles The domestcs of the institution were chiefly their maids or servants or chauffeurs.
 There may have been a few paid do- mestlcs, but certainly no one else on the staff from the chief surgeon down re-
 ceived a wage.
 T left Canada a good democrat and re-
 turn as left; but I must confess a feel ing of admiration and respect for the
 arstocrats I met in this hospital doing
 what they conceived to be their duty in
 these terrible times. In the hospital ladies
 who had been waited upon all their lives
 cheerfully performed tasks they would
 not require of their maids. They accepted
 ifo1 ,f ,irrl,t
 watches and faithfully administered to
 the needs of the wounded soldiers of all
 ranks. Among others who served were
 MT. and Mrs. Gray of Cambridge. He
 acted as an orderly and she as a nurse. They paid the hospital S200 month; they gave it the service of motor and their chauffeur, and they consistently bought all sorts of things for the institution One of the finest characters and one of the most useful persons about the place was the Rev. Mir Gedge, Church of England clergyman from York cathedral. He performed the dual duties of orderly and chauffeur driving as an ambulance
 a car given by his congregation for that purpose. Only on Sunday was he the ] clergyman, and I shell always remember with admiration the calm reverence with which. he conducted service one Sunday through the din of terrific lombard ment.
 Just 10 miles away, at Fayel. was an- other of these Anglo-French hospitals where master and man. mistress and
 maid worked side by side, humbly and faithfully The Fayel hospital is run by Countess Helena Gleichen, a cousin of King George of England, and by Lady Wemys daughter of the British ambas- sador at Paris Dr. Lapthorn Smith of Montreal Is one of the surgeons at Fayel. Our chief surgeon or medicine chef, at Chateau de Rimberlieu was Dr. Merlin, a member of the French Chamber of Depu- ties and the surgeons under him were an English Spaniard from Jamaica, a Scotchman and myself, a Canadian. Those
 who came to us were French soldiers of every rank, and all of them patient and cheerful. Their one idea was to mend and get back to active service That they would return to the lines they took as a matter of course.
 'It is wonderful how the French love
 their country; the high and the humbl>