Edith Appleton in Le Tréport - 1 July, 1918

from Diary of Edith Appleton, 1 July 1918, page 220:

Today is Dominion Day for the Canadians - which probably accounts for the band and cheering I heard a short while ago at 6 a.m. Yesterday a procession of sisters, officers and men, headed by their band, marched to all the cemeteries where Canadians are resting, where they held a short service and sounded the Last Post. The sisters marched well and looked rather pretty in the distance - quite a long line of them four deep, all in their bright blue dresses and white caps.
cite as

Edith Appleton, Diary of Edith Appleton, 1 July 1918. In Ruth Cowen (ed.), A Nurse at the Front (London, 2013), p. 220. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1397062580591 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Le Tréport

Listeners

Edith Appleton
nurse, QAIMNS nurse
1877-1958

Experience Information

Date/Time 1 July, 1918
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, outdoors, in public

Originally submitted by hgb3 on Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:56:20 +0100