The dressing station at Pervyse
In her interview in 1976, Mairi Chisholm recalled the night when she and Elsie Knocker set off to establish an advanced dressing station in the ruined village of Pervyse, right on the front line of the Belgian trenches.
Thee women had been working with Dr Munro's Ambulance Corps for just two months, but felt that they stood a greater chance of saving wounded soldiers if they could be treated at the actual Front. By this time, the front line had become more fixed.
'We filled our knapsacks and things with such as we required … and walked up with the soldiers … We must have marched about 10 kilometres up into the trenches in the pitch dark … and we installed ourselves up there in the cellar of a house.'
— Extract quoted by permission of the Imperial War Museum.
