The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLII, no. 251 new series, May 1917)Various
History
The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLII, no. 251 new series, May 1917)
Various
England -- Periodicals; English literature -- Periodicals; Short stories, English -- Periodicals
From the inception of the movement all of the British residents in Italy
threw themselves into it heart and soul; and not only these, but also
those then resident in England who, through past acquaintance or study,
felt that the land of Michael Angelo and Raphael, of Dante and Tasso,
of Garibaldi and Mazzini, was deserving of a fitting testimonial of
sympathy. Voluntary contributions of money and service poured in for the
Red Cross Mission from all sides, while various auxiliary organisations
were formed to help in other ways. Over 20,000 garments and over 12,000
bandages have been made in the Joint War Committee’s ten War Hospital
Supply Depots in Italian cities, where 500 ladies are engaged in making
comforts for the sick and wounded. The total of garments supplied through
the Commissioner’s Stores Department is in excess of 60,000, and that of
bandages 113,000. A number of _Posti di Ristoro_, or refreshment depots,
are conducted by English ladies at various railway stations near and on
the way to the front, while more recently a movement has been inaugurated
for starting a system of recreation huts patterned after those conducted
with such success by the Y.M.C.A. in France and Flanders.
To return to the Red Cross work. Mr. Trevelyan’s pioneer unit is the
largest of the three now in operation. It consists of an 110-bed
hospital, working as a regular part of the Italian army corps, and of
some thirty ambulances and twelve other cars, which are attached to
several army corps in Gorizia and neighbourhood. The hospital is under
the charge of Dr. George S. Brock, the medical doctor of the British
Embassy in Rome, and Colonel Sir Alexander Ogston, the celebrated Scotch
surgeon, and Dr. W. E. Thompson of Edinburgh. The personnel of the
hospital consists of about twenty English nurses, the matron, Miss Power,
having marched through the snow in the retreat of the Servian army, with
which she worked in 1915. There are sixty English drivers and mechanics,
one of whom has been severely wounded and another slightly. The King of
Italy has made personal presentation of the Silver Medal for Military
Valour to the commandant as a testimony to the services of the whole unit
under fire during its year and a half of service on the Italian front.
The Second Unit, with a smaller number of cars, under the command of Mr.
F. Sargant, has been working in the rough and difficult Carnic Alps for
fifteen months. This is the most isolated of all the units, and its work
under conditions calling for unusual resource and initiative has resulted
in its being commended in a special Order of the Day issued by General
Lequio, who at the time commanded the unit to which it is attached. This,
the highest honour an Italian General can confer on the troops under his
command, reads as follows:
‘H.Q. CARNIA ZONE,
‘_July 23, 1916_.
‘General Orders N. 72.
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