Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-25
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 My first full day in Lazarett VI had begun. At o'clock a Frenchrnan n quietly entered the room carrying a huge jug of coffee and an axmful of bread. There were enameled mugs standing on our lockers which he Hfled. He left us each a piece of black bread about four inches square and two inches thick. This was our ration of bread for the day. From that time forward at regular hours food was brought to us as follows:
 a. m-''Schinken'- consist ed of a very thin slice of bread smear ed with some sort of grease, and shaving of sausage or cheese. This was breakfast At this time we also received our ration of butter. which consisted of a very small piece of this same greasy substance used on the ~Schinten.' During the morning we each got a bottle of aerafed water. call ed lemonade and colored either pink or yellow. We could have our choice.
 II a. m-A mug of what was sup ffavorIess liquid whose only virtue was that it was very hot. A cake of Oxo dropped into this made fairly decent 6rink.
 The Midday. Meal.
 1230 a. m.-Lunch-Invariab boil G. piece of horse meat with all the nourishment boiled out of it for soup. It was coarse grained and very sweet. Once a week we had awful smelling 1ish cooked with the heads, eyes and tails complete. There was no doubt about its being fish. The trouble was that it had apparently been caught years before the war began: We could never eat it, so we gave it to tEe Russians, who occupied the beds in the hall outside our door. They devoured it all. poor fellows! They reminded me of the old story of the dog which was advertised for& sale thus: will eat anything. Very fond of children. Instead of meat or fish we often got a very large pancake. tough as leather. and fried in fish fat Butter and pure grease were never allowed in the hospital kitchens,
 D. m.-A glass of milk. If you drank it at once holding your nose you could make yourself believe that it had come from COW. If you left it stand ing for three hours, it divided itself hours the junket turned to a chalk like substance.
 D. m.-Coffee.
 6 p. m.-Dinner, which was the same as lunch, with the addition Of soup.
 in the x-Ray Room.
 About o'clock the morning of June , sanftaire came for me and
 
 room, where a very expert nun took two photographs of my arm. Later on in the morning a rubber-tir hospital car bearing dressings and instruments was pushed into the room by an order ly, and in a few minutes Dr. Meyer and a red-headed assistant doctor followed by two sanitaires all dressed in long white coats. appeared. One of the lat ter removed the bandages from nay arm. pr. Meyer examined the wound and muttered "schlecht (bad)"; then turned to the assistant doctor-and said 'Schreiben Sie!" CWrite!) The doctor diagnosed my case, giancing from time to. time at the X-ray photographs, while his assistant wrote down on a pad all the details which were later to be inserted in my medical history sheet.
 Noodle spoke German very we'll and explained to me afterward that the doctor had said that the wound where the bullet entered was not serious but that three centimeters of the "a dfus had been carried away, while the large hole torn by the 1attened bullet and splinters of bone was in a serious con dition. and several of the tendons had been destroyed. i .--
 I was taken downstairs to the ''pla S. ter room." The doctor and his assist ant slipped on overalls and spread sheets all over the floor My arm was wrapped in flannel and then bandageS sprinlled with plaster of paris were dipped in a pail of water and wound round my arm until I was in a solid