Will not called for. Three motor ambulance take twenty six of us & a captain & batman to our A.D.S. which is the ruins of an old brick house on the other side of the town of Ypres. I am in the third car & the ruins of Ypres is a sight never to be forgotten, Fritz still shells it regular as he knows we have troops billeted in the basements & in dugouts there. Our guns close to Bedford House give me my first scare when they open up on Fritz. our party is sent to Railway Canal dugouts & I am to be in the first four of our section to go up into the line. O. Rawle of C section got a machine gun bullet thro his foot. Fritz takes a couple of pot shots at Bedford house but as there is so little of it standing he does no damage. finish my letter I was writing & give it to D.R. Anthony to take back to the M.D.S. Sat Aug 26 Breakfast at Bedford House.
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
Romania enters the war
On August 27, Romania will declare war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Allied Powers. It is the latest nation to join the conflict. The Allies hope the new front will relieve pressure elsewhere. Within four months, the Romanian army will be defeated and Bucharest occupied by the Central Powers. Bedford House, south of Ypres, is a ruined château used as a British headquarters and medical post. The ruins of Ypres (once a prosperous medieval city) extend for miles. The Cloth Hall and Cathedral are skeletal remains.
