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War Letters From A Young Queenslander

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

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Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 03 hours and 42 minutes

Language: English

Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of "de-lousing" an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine trenches and his eyewitness accounts of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Ypres and a contemporary comment on the Gallipoli campaign. He describes how the enemy rains shells on the ambulances and the retrievals of the wounded from the trenches at night. This was also a time of great medical advances, so we hear from a participant the fascinating story of some of the first mass Tetanus inoculations, and the series of experiments surrounding the invention of "vermi-jelly", along with the darker stories of the invention and first uses of chlorine gas.

This story of an Australian doctor in The Great War is read by another Australian doctor, and comes complete with Australian slang read in an authentic Aussie accent! (Summary by Beth Thomas)

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Aldershot (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Boulogne (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
The R.A.M.C at Work (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Connaught Rangers (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Bathing and Laundry Experiences (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Neuve Chapelle (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
With The Highlanders at Ypres (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Gas: Bane and Antidote (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Some Lively Incidents (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Gallipoli and Australian reflections (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Odd Jottings of a Quiet Week in the Trenches (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
An Anniversary Review (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Battle Scenes: All Along The Line (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Indian Types (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Farewell to Flanders (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
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