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Members of the British Columbia Society of Artists will
be glad to know that one of their old members, Francis
Noel Bursill, who was wounded in the operations at Vimy, is now well on the
road to recovery. He has fortunately been able to save his eyesight, but was
severely wounded in the face, chin and throat, and unfortunately contracted an
attack of quinsy, and for a long time was in danger of losing his life. He is
now sufficiently recovered to be removed from France to an English hospital,
and from there he writes a cheery letter, speaking highly of the splendid
arrangements for the wounded men, who are now coming back to England in
enormous numbers. While in France he was in communication with Noel Robinson,
late of The World newspaper. In the course of an interesting letter Noel Bursill says there ought to be many reinforcements go to France to relieve the men in the trenches, many of whom have been there for two years and more, suffering in a way that the people away from the war zone little dream of. In the hospital in which he is now placed he says artistic ability is fully requisitioned. As far as his health permits he is constantly making sketches in the albums of nurses and Tommies, drawing picture postcards and occasionally writing verses on them. The general feeling among his fellow convalescents is that all nationalities are fed up with this horrible war and that a sudden end will be brought to it by the German people thowing up the sponge with regards to the war with the Allies and starting a big scrap among themselves. |