The Henson Journals
Sat 31 October 1914
Volume 20, Page 49
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Saturday, October 31st, 1914.
89th day
A dreary wet day infinitely comfortless. I finished a paper on Christianity & War for the South Shields clergy: attended Evensong in the Cathedral: went to tea with Mrs Moulsdale: & visited the little hospital in the Bailey. The doctor came to ask that the car might be sent across to the Red Cross Hospital in Newcastle tomorrow morning in order to bring to Durham some of the wounded. These I understand, will be selected from the less severely injured, who can the more fitly be sent to a small hospital, hastily improvised & necessarily ill equipped. M. Demelle, who came to me in the place of his old father, said that he had just returned from Bordeaux, where he had been doing Red cross work, that his wife & daughter were there still busily engaged with the mass of wounded – 25,000 – who had come in from the front: & that his son was fighting somewhere & now serving under his 3rd colonel in succession!