Group of Japanese Red Cross nurses and doctors on their way to Europe. In August, 1918, a Japanese Red Cross Mission arrived in Great Britain to visit the Belgian, French, and Italian fronts. This group? (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1410082)
Group of Japanese Red Cross nurses and doctors on their way to Europe © by the International News Service, N.Y.Reverse:Group of Jap Red Cross Nurses and Doctors on their way to Europe. Sitting left to right: - Miss T. Murata, Miss Y. Katsuta, Miss. S. Kiycoka, Mr. M. Kuwabara, Dr. J. Suzuki, Dr. F. O'Shinna, Mr. N. Otsuka, Miss Y. Yamamato and Miss H. Matsusuo.Standing: - Miss H. Hisayan, Miss S. Myabara, Miss E.M. Hosoia, Miss K. Ogasawara, Miss T. Kando, Miss M Hirose, Miss K. Matsuda, Miss E. Nishyama, Miss M. Kasin, Miss M. Ono, Miss K. Kasai, Miss S.K. Amiyo.W.C.A. Series 146.
"Upon rising the next morning, we found that about 100 versts of our journey still remained to be covered. Our train dragged along at a painful pace, stopping at every station for long, intermediary halts. On one station we made the acquaintance of three Red Cross Sisters who had been in the Retreat from Warsaw. One of them was Japanese, but spoke fluent Russian and was serving in a Russian Red Cross Unit. The elder of her companions described some of their experiences and spoke with horror of the poisonous gas employed by the Germans. In one district near Warsaw, she said, there was a field the memory of which could never be erased. It was heaped with the bodies of soldiers who had been gassed and the terrible positions of the men in death added to the ghastly spectacle: she had heard that over 6,000 men had been forced to vyyte iz stroya [fall out of formation] that day from gas alone."
The great Russian Retreat of 1915 continued, taking Frances Farmborough, an English teacher turned Red Cross nurse serving in a unit of the Russian Army, with it. By August 12, 1915, the joint German-Austro-Hungarian Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, already over three months old, had removed the Russian threat to Austria-Hungary, overrun the great but antiquated fortresses defending Warsaw, and had captured, on August 5, that greatest city of Polish Russia. Japan was allied with Russia, France, and Great Britain, but had limited military involvement in 1914 and 1915, seizing some of Germany's colonies in Asia, such as the port city of Tsingtao.The Russian verst was 2/3 of a mile. Bracketed translation in the original.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, pp. 110, 111, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
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