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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

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Number of Chapters: 10

Length: 6 hours and 58 minutes

Language: English

The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases. Although written in diary form, it is clearly taken from letters home and gives a vivid if sometimes distressing picture of the state of the casualties suffered during that period. After a time at the General Hospital in Le Havre she became one of the three or four sisters working on the ambulance trains which fetched the wounded from the Clearing Hospitals close to the front line and took them back to the General Hospitals in Boulogne and Le Havre. Towards the end of the account she was posted to a Field Ambulance (station) close to Ypres. (Summary by Andy Minter)

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Waiting for Orders (Ruth Golding)
Le Mans - Wounded from the Aisne (Ruth Golding)
First Experiences (Julie VW)
First Battle of Ypres (Julie VW)
Ambulance Train British and Indians (Jacquerie)
Ambulance Train Christmas and New Year (Jacquerie)
Ambulance Train - Winter on the train and in the trenches (Marianne Coleman-Hipkins)
Ambulance Train - Rouen, Spring in NW France (Jacquerie)
Field Ambulance - Billets, Life at the back of the front (Jacquerie)
Festubert, Boulogne, Posted (Marianne Coleman-Hipkins)
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