Source: File: Hospital
work in Serbia. jpeg, [online] Available at: <http://www.inverclydeww1.org/topics/women-at-war>
Accessed: 1 December 2015].
To provide
assistance to Serbian forces
Against Bulgarian
forces, two brigades
Of Franco-British
troops landed Salonica,
In October 1915 -
prompted by prime
Minister of
Greece - only to arrive too late.
From out of the
situation, two nurses
Of the Red Cross
told their tales -
Salonica 30
November, to arrive there
With nothing but
clothes they wore -
All kit left
abandoned on Prizrend road.
The English
nurse, sister Miss Lewis
Along with miss Annandale
- South
African Matron -
were in a Red Cross
Unit, attached to
Second Serbian army -
That had defended
Serbian town Pirot.
Despite the town
likely to fall to forces
Of Bulgaria, the
nurses wanted to stay
With the wounded,
but a commander
Insisted they
leave with the retreating
Army - to abandon
all injured soldiers.
They left with
the retreat, the day prior
To Pirot's fall
to all Bulgarian forces -
Annandale and
Lewis told of bravery
Of Serbs - where
wounded conveyed
In bullock carts
made no complaints.
The matron could
not forget the harsh
Manner of
retreat, with six members
Of the Red Cross
unit - in their running
Short of food had
at one point, a single
Small black loaf
shared between them.
To reach Libra - where Naval detachment
Of the British,
shared out their rations.
Behind them they
had left all equipment;
Tents worth £1000
and instruments
Of £300 - along
with all the transport cars.
On that road of
retreat, the Red Cross
Unit saw and
passed the littered dead
And wounded -
without a possibility to
Help them - such
experiences decided
Their assistance
to help in the Balkans.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. The Retreat from Invaded Serbia - Heroic Serb
Wounded. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 1 December. P.9. Col.2. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12019592/Daily-Telegraph-December-1-1915.html
[Accessed: 1 December 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 1 December 2015).
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