WORLD WAR1 WOMAN SERVDE FLORA SADES HER STORY
Now wars a man thing rightReel macho kind of thing
Woman have their roll right enough
Nursing , tending to the wounded
Dressing wounds , giving the wounded blanket baths
Bring them bed pans that kind of thing
Wiping their brows
Giving words of comfort writing letters fore
Unable to write
The wounded soldiers in their care
Giving T L C
That's what most if not all think of woman in WW1
Then there were Flora Sades , who was not to be a novelty in uniform
Flora , volenterd to be a nurse on the Weston front France and Belgium
Flora arivde fore her interview , she had all the training needed
But was to keen she was tested
Road a horse with a stretcher behind
The ''casualty '' bounced off the stretcher while Flora gallop on
Regardless!
Well Flora failed the test
Full of gloom returned home
By chance as Flora arivde she saw a woman she know
'' Why good evening Flora '' '' just the woman I called to see! ''
'' But I'm to late , your mother and father just informed me that you ''
'' Have already Volunteered to be a nurse ''
'' Did , but they failed me '' Fora close to tears told the family friend
''Well , Fora dear , '' '' I am recruiting nurses fore the Serbians ''
''If your are interested that is , you can join us if you like ''
Flora said '' yes of course I'm interested! '' Flora now brightener up
Floras spirits lifted , a smile now replaced her frown
Well Flora was in!
Then it was off , to be a nurse with the Serbians!
Flora work in a hospital at first
From an American nurse learned to be to be a surgical to be a surgical nurse
Learned to amputate with out anesthetic
All the wounded soldier had was a cigaret while his arm or leg was amputated
As Flora held them down
That was the back story Flora
The Serbian army was forced to retreat the hospital had to go with army
The Serbian army was in a bad way forced to retreat
Flora not a woman to be found wanting
Could see she was needed as a soldier , nursing , could wait fore now
Fora picked up a rifle , and began shooting back at the Bulgarians
Who were shooting at her! Fora took that personally!
Soon Flora was reconisde as being a rather good shot
Fellow soldiers made her a rifle , lighter , shorter just fore her
She lead from the front , encourage the fainthearted
led by example
Soon she was promoted to Sargent , then to Sargent major
The men referred to Flora as '' our lovely Sargent ''
No one questioned Flora , gave Flora no nonsense
Flora was excepted as a fellow soldier as good if not better
Than any who soldier with them
Flora tended to the wounded comrades in between firing her riffle
Till one day leading an attacked , Flora was hit by fragments of a grenade
She lay bleeding from her wounds in no mans land
Her comrades could not leaver her out there alone
Soon they went out under intense fire and got her back with her men
Where Flora belonged
Flora was soon back fighting beside her men
Flora survived the war , joined the reserves of the Yugoslav army
With the rank of Major , when WW2 began fore the then Yugoslavia
Flora reported to her registrant
She led her men to fight against the German army
But they were to many fore Flora
She had to withdraw reluctantly
A British woman and so very English
Till you got to meet and know Flora Sades
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Poet And Story Teller
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2012-05-04 at 23:56
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