5Number 15 CCS, South-east of Hazebrouck, Saturday, 27 May 1916
Lucy stepped back from the operating table and eased her shoulders as the Royal Army Medical Corps orderlies carried the patient away. It was 0400 hours and she’d been working in the operating theatre with the English doctor since 0800 hours on Friday. The only breaks had been about fifteen minutes for lunch and another fifteen minutes for dinner, with a hurried snack at midnight.
‘Is that the last, Doctor?’ she asked.
He shook his head and pointed to the entrance where four orderlies were carrying another wounded man into the theatre.
The doctor had been a senior surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital in London before the war, but now he was a major in the RAMC and operating in a casualty clearing station less than two miles behi
