SLEEPING WOUNDED FROM THE SOMME

Every soldier on active service has more or less of deferred sleep, as well as deferred pay, due to him. If he be wounded he usually recovers a large instalment of both - the former during his first nights and days in hospital, the latter when he leaves the convalescent hospital for the ten days' sick leave given to all wounded or sick men who have been sent to England for treatment.

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