British soldiers pushing an ambulance through the mud. A mounted horseman is on the road ahead.

Helping an ambulance through the mud.

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Heavy rains have often made the British front a quagmire, and our 'Tommies' have had to put their shoulders to the wheels of ambulance and other wagons.

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Series 6 No. 45

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Monday, August 27, 1917

"August 27th.—A wet night and day, but quiet. The Division is coming out. We go to the Second Army, Plumer's, to be put in, as usual, where it's sticky—and it's been sticky as blood beyond Ypres."

Quotation Context

Entry for August 27, 1917 from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J. C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and fellow soldiers who served with him. British commander in chief General Douglas Haig had assigned General Herbert Plumer, already commanding the British Second Army, to take command of the II Division from General Hubert Gough who had been unsuccessful in the Third Battle of Ypres, started on July 31.

Source

The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, page 379, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994

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1917-08-27, 1917, August, Ypres, British medical corps