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

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Medical, Memoirs

Authors: Anonymous In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

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

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

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)