"Two of our chaps were badly wounded at one of the first-aid stations while helping to load wounded men into the ambulance. One was blown right through the door of the shelter hut and was discovered lying unconscious beside three dead French soldiers. The boys who got them out had to go through a gas attack and a barrage fire.
The ambulance had two drivers—had no time to get masks and were very sick after it was over, but they were going so fast that there were no fatal results from the gas.
" 'Mac,' one of our fraternity, has been wounded in eight places, lost his right leg and two fingers, while his companion, 'Vet,' will have a stiff leg all his life from the effects of his wounds. They have both got the War Cross and military medals.
"The worst experience of all happened to two of our college boys—Jim. Two of them—each ambulance—they were driving along a road lined with batteries, which the Germans were trying to locate, with a wounded man lying in the ambulance, a shell burst right beside them. 