A doctor in France, 1917-1919 : the diary of Harold Barclay / [Harold Barclay].

  • Barclay, Harold, 1872-1922.
Date:
1923
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Credit: A doctor in France, 1917-1919 : the diary of Harold Barclay / [Harold Barclay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    home, pack and have everything on the pier (Pier 66) before sundown that night. Max is packing my things for me—an officer’s trunk, a Gladstone bag and a canvas roll with poncho blankets and a “Gold Medal” canvas cot. We hustle them down to Pier 60 and leave them standing there with a feeling that they will not be seen again, as the whole pier is a mass of motor trucks and boxes of every descrip¬ tion. We are to sail on the S.S. “Lapland” on the south side of the pier. The “Baltic” has just docked and is discharging cargo at a tre¬ mendous rate. The rattle of the winches is deafening and there are literally hundreds of stevedores at work. With a silent farewell my baggage is left, and then back to the house where Helen and I lunch and start for Mt. Kisco for the after¬ noon. One still feels terribly conscious and queer in uniform. My memory keeps going back to the days when Rob and I enlisted for the