I was at the repatriation ceremony for Corporal Beauchamp, as was Corporal Crampton. After that, you live with the grief, as I am doing now. You get through it in the same way.
There is another perhaps lesser known problem. How do you react to comrades who come back wounded? That was our day to day at the FOB, or forward operating base. We took care of our people. On a combat team, medical personnel are not seen as separate. They are truly part of the combat team. Those people weren't part of the medical team, but they were part of the infantry, armoured personnel. When something happened to one of us, it was extremely tough.
Something I can recall vividly, and I describe it in my first book, is the agonizing feeling I had when I knew that a major operation would result in our members' incurring severe injuries in a few minutes. It was my first mass call, my first event with a large number of wounded. At first, I was very rattled, but I can tell you that my training kicked in and I went into automatic pilot. And the same goes for my young nurses, even though their training was shorter than mine but excellent regardless. When a wounded member arrives, your training kicks in and you respond almost automatically, a reflex that is absolutely vital in those situations.