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1910s >> 1917 >> no-154-june-1917

The Other Side

“Distressing as the sight is, no one who visits the front should leave it without visiting one of these field hospitals, for otherwise he will see only the glorious and not the sad side of modern war.”—Col. A. M. Murray, C.B. in the “Daily News,” May 21st, 1917.

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