Round about Bar-le-Duc

A first-person account of volunteer relief work around a provincial French town during the war, tracing arrival, daily routines, and evolving relationships with local women and clergy. It records practical challenges of uniforms and kit, descriptions of occupations such as basket-making, repatriated civilians, responses to air raids and the impact of nearby heavy fighting, and encounters with French soldiers. The narrative combines episodic travel impressions, moral observation, and administrative detail to convey the human effects of conflict on communities, charitable efforts, and the resilience and ordinary humanness of civilians amid hardship.