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less formally as "Angelinas". Every train of wounded men was met by Lady Angela and her volunteers, largely friends and relations. At first, the supplies needed were funded by appeals in the newspapers, but in 1915, both the Red Cross and the
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and saw trains of wounded soldiers coming in, and was surprised that they were left on the quay for hours with no food or drink. In
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in France, to which wounded men returned. One canteen was for the workmen building the
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Lady Angela Forbes’s story presents us with a number of smart society people; they chatter and intrigue in various country houses, and at other times we meet them in London. Most of them indulge in epigrammatic talk, which, though not strictly true to life, is excusable in so far as it makes their
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day. From the profits of her canteens, Forbes built fourteen recreational huts for the soldiers. However, senior officers found her abrasive, and
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