George Edmund Butler, Soeur Jean, Le Quesnoy, 14 November 1918

“The first men to enter the Town (Le Quesnoy) were met by a nun – Soer St Jean of the Order of the Enfance de Jesus, who urged them to show no mercy to the Germans as their treatment of our prisoners (British)was beyond all description vile; hundreds appear to have died from lack of food and clothing; all French civilians say the same thing.

I had a long interview with this charming sister, who used to nurse our sick and wounded; the Germans never brought them into the convent till they were so frightfully ill that all hope of recovery was out of the question…”

Quoted from Neville Lytton