[Illustration: ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JELLICOE
Commanding the British Fleets
(_Photo from Rogers._)]
[Illustration: GEN. VICTOR DANKL
The Austrian Commander in the Russian Campaign
(_Photo from Bain News Service._)]
In front of us on the road lay a dreadful barrier, which brought us to a
halt. A German shell had fallen right on top of an ammunition convoy.
Four horses had been blown to pieces and their carcasses lay strewn
across the road. The ammunition wagon had been broken into fragments and
smashed and burned to cinders by the explosion of its own shells. A
Belgian soldier lay dead, cut in half by a great fragment of steel.
Further along the road were two other dead horses in pools of blood. It
was a horrible and sickening sight, from which one turned away
shuddering with cold sweat, but we had to pass it after some of this
dead flesh had been dragged away.
Further down the road we had left two of the cars in charge of Lady
Dorothie Feilding and her two nurses. They were to wait there until we
brought back some of the wounded. Two ambulances came on with our light
car, commanded by Lieut. Broqueville and Dr. Munro. Mr. Gleeson asked me
to help him as stretcher-bearer. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett was to work with
one of the other stretcher-bearers.
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