August 2, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
47 
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the fie 
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T is not far to the Dressing Station, but each step 
seems long when you are in pain ; when you feel 
the fever coming on, and your throat is parched with 
the gas and smoke of the shells. 
By supporting the work of the Y.MC.A. you can lighten 
the sufferings of those files of weary men, straggling back 
under fire, wounded. You can enable our workers to meet 
them there, on the very edge of the battle, with the food 
and drink they need so badly. 
■it is in your power to refresh 
these wounded men and help them 
on their way. WHIl you do it ? 
Here is an account of what actually happened in the Battles of 
Messines and Wytschaete, in which we were accorded the privilege 
of supplementing the splendid work of the Medical Authorities : — 
" The Headquartert of the Army in a letter tent to all the Corps <uked 
them to grant at facilities to distribute hot and cold drinkt, bitcaitt, 
chocolate, and cigarettes Co ths walking uoundcd. 
"In a wondarfat way the door was opened so_ that the Y.M.C.A.'s 
served every track of wa'.king wounded on the battle front. We attached 
ihem first to the advanced Drecsing Sta:i:ns. where at one point two of 
our men were confined lor three nights unable to get out. Tlien half-way 
doom the tracks from the advanced Dressing Stations we had a small 
hat to help them on the journey, and then finally at every Collecting 
Post the Y.M.C.A. men ucre there to give ths men the drink they so 
very much needed, or to light a cigarette." 
£1(00,000 is ergesntly needed 
It costs ;£'6oo a day to mainlain the work which the Y.M.C.A. is now 
carrying on in over 2,000 Centres; and from every Battle Front the 
soldiers are asking us not merely to maintain our present work, but to 
extend it. £250 will provide a Marquee fully equipped. Will you give 
one ? Remember that every £1 you subscribe does some- 
' j thing directly or indirectly to lelievc the sufferings of those 
gallant men who are walking back to the Dressing Station. 
Drsstng 
Station 
and Rail Head 
nonaA'oni iJobU hi aJArauJ I" Ma:or R L. Hartley. Y^M.C.A. 
Jialiottal HyJllO'l"-'. I'-!. Knttrll Hwnr,. l,onJ,,n. W L. I 
WILL YOU POST THIS TO-DAY? 
To Major R. L. Barclay, Y.M.C.A. National Headquarters. 
12, Russell Square, London, W.C. 1. 
I have pleasure in enclosing £ towards 
the Special Work of the Y.M.C.A. for the Troops. 
Name 
Address 
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LAND AND WATFR. 
