MaureenE Posted 2 November , 2015 Share Posted 2 November , 2015 Some online books (Archive.org) which are accounts by women volunteers, who were nurses etc With the exception of the first, they are mainly accounts of work in France and Flanders https://archive.org/details/withscottishnurs00fitzrich With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania by Yvonne Fitzroy 1918 https://archive.org/details/01110260R.nlm.nih.gov A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital 1918. [by a British nurse] Experiences in Belgium from August 1914 to October 1915. The author was with a group of nursing sisters mobilized by an English lady and under the patronage of Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians. (The organizing lady appears to have been Madame Sindici and there are more details in the link http://greatwarin3d.org/PrivateFurnes.htm The Great War in Stereoviews: Furnes Field Hospital, Belgium and also in the book A Surgeon in Belgium by H S Soutta4 1915 https://archive.org/details/surgeoninbelgium00soutuoft ) https://archive.org/details/whiteroadverdun00burkuoft The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke 1916 https://archive.org/details/14231960R.nlm.nih.gov "Mademoiselle Miss" : letters from an American girl serving with the rank of lieutenant in a French army hospital at the front 1916 There is a series of blogs about the author, which state her name to be Kate Norman Derr http://mademoisellemisscontinued.com/2013/10/ https://archive.org/details/01120300R.nlm.nih.gov A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer 1917 Archive.org https://archive.org/details/01120230R.nlm.nih.gov A Nurse at the War: Nursing Adventures in Belgium and France. 1917. The author is stated to be Grace McDougall. She was in the FANY Corps https://archive.org/details/01110240R.nlm.nih.gov In the soldier's service : war experiences of Mary Dexter : England, Belgium, France, 1914-1918, published 1918 https://archive.org/details/backoffrontinfra00bradiala Back of the front in France; Letters from Amy Owen Bradley, Motor Driver of the American Fund for French Wounded. 1918 https://archive.org/details/55230490R.nlm.nih.gov Hospital Heroes by Elizabeth Walker Black 1919 https://archive.org/details/55511410R.nlm.nih.gov 88 bis and V.I.H. : letters from two hospitals by An American VAD 1919 https://archive.org/details/01120380R.nlm.nih.gov Over Periscope pond : letters from two American girls in Paris, October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker 1918 They were working with refugees at the Vestiaire run by Dr Shurtleff https://archive.org/details/01110420R.nlm.nih.gov Britain's civilian volunteers : authorized story of British Voluntary Aid Detachment work in the Great War by Thekla Bowser 1917 https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance by Adele Bleneau 1915 This is a romantic novel, but there are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic background. For a review of this novel scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the Pittsburgh Press (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James A Pratt III Posted 30 November , 2015 Share Posted 30 November , 2015 Also on archive.org: My War Experiences on two Continents Sarah Macnaughton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 20 January , 2016 Share Posted 20 January , 2016 Many thanks I really need these links! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShazArch Posted 6 February , 2016 Share Posted 6 February , 2016 Thanks for posting these. Always keen to search for any mention of my nurses (Eleanor Shackleton and Elsie Fraser). Shazarch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 15 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 15 February , 2016 Mentioned in post 2 My war experiences in two continents by S Macnaughtan 1919 Archive.org https://archive.org/details/mywarexperiences00macnrich Mentioned on another GWF post recently: Diary of a nursing sister on the western front, 1914-1915 by Kate (Katherine) Evelyn Luard 1915 Archive.org https://archive.org/details/diaryofnursingsi00nursuoft There was a further publication ‘Unknown Warriors: The Letters of Kate Luard, RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918’, first published in 1930, and re-edited and published in 2014. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Wood Posted 18 February , 2016 Share Posted 18 February , 2016 Two by Mabel Stobart - War and women, from experience in the Balkans and elsewhere (1913) https://archive.org/details/warwomenfromexpe00stobrich The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere (1916)https://archive.org/details/flamingswordins00stobgoog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 20 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 20 February , 2016 More accounts from the Balkans, from the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Salonica and the Balkans (First World War) ( http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Salonica_and_the_Balkans_(First_World_War)) My diary in Serbia, April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 by Monica M Stanley, attached to the Stobart Field Hospital in Serbia. 1916 Archive.org Letters from a Field Hospital by Mabel Dearmer 1915 Archive.org. The husband of author Mabel Dearmer was appointed as Chaplain to the British units in Serbia, so she volunteered as an orderly with the Stobart Serbian Unit. She died at Kragujevatz of typhoid fever July 1915. The Retreat from Serbia through Montenegro and Albania by Olive M Aldridge 1916. The author was with the Serbian Relief Fund under Mrs Stobart from July 1915, until she reached London in December 1915. "The Great Retreat In Serbia In 1915" by M. I. Tatham. (Scroll down). First published in Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Miss M I Tatham served (1915) with Stobart Field Hospital (Serbian Relief Unit), Kraguyevatz, Serbia. (from edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk) The Story of a Red Cross Unit in Serbia by James Berry, F May Dickinson Berry, W Lyon Blease 1916 Archive.org. The Anglo-Serbian Hospital, or the Royal Free Hospital. The Stricken Land: Serbia as we saw it by Alice and Claude Askew 1916 Archive.org. In 1915, both Alice and Claude Askew, who were authors, travelled to Serbia as part of a relief effort with a British field hospital that would be attached to the Second Serbian Army. They were also Special Correspondents for the British newspaper Daily Express. (Wikipedia) "Serbia", page 79, Part Three: A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals by Eva Shaw McLaren 1919 Archive.org, (from a microfilm copy). An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army by Flora Sandes 1916 Archive.org. LibriVox audio recording Archive.org The Autobiography of a Woman Soldier: A Brief Record of Adventure with the Serbian Army 1916-1919 by Flora Sandes c 1927 Archive.org Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 20 February , 2016 Share Posted 20 February , 2016 Brilliant. Many thanks Maureene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 8 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2016 Some additional books on Serbia Experiences of a Woman Doctor in Serbia by Dr Caroline Matthews 1916 Archive.org. The author worked independently in Serbia in a Military Hospital as a Red Cross doctor. She subsequently became a POW and was suspected of being a spy. Later in her captivity in Hungary she was placed with a group of fellow prisoners from a Scottish Women’s Hospitals Unit. A Nation at Bay: What an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia by Ruth S Farnam 1918 Archive.org. She initially worked at a hospital run by Madame Grouitch, an American married to a Serbian diplomat. Subsequently she joined a group connected with Prince and Princess Alexis where she was in charge of medical stores for hospitals in the area, Later she raised funds in England and America, and visited the American unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals at Ostrove. Amelia Peabody Tileston and her canteens for the Serbs by Mary Wilder Tileston 1920 Archive.org. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 11 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 11 March , 2016 A number of books, coded as subject:"World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc" from Archive.org which include accounts by women https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&page=1 Includes (copied from the list) Letters from a French hospital The cellar-house of Pervyse; Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) A diary without dates Bagnold, Enid The backwash of war; The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold My home in the field of mercy Huard, Frances Wilson Eighteen months in the war zone; Finzi, Kate John Ladies of Grécourt, the Smith college relief unit in the Sommes Gaines, Ruth Louise A village in Picardy Gaines, Ruth Louise Helping France; the Red cross in the devastated area Gaines, Ruth Louise In a French military hospital Cator, Dorothy 'My Beloved Poilus'Warner, Agnes . Also on gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24368 Verdun days in Paris Grant, Marjorie Women of the war McLaren, Barbara Zigzagging Anderson, Isabel Weld The Edith Cavell nurse from Massachusetts: a record of one year's personal service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne--the Somme, 1916-l9l7, with an account of the imprisonment, trial and death of Edith Cavell Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Finding themselves, the letters of an American army chief nurse in a British hospital in France. [microform] Stimson, Julia Catherine Intimate letters from France during America's first year of war Ashe, Elizabeth H Cheers Maureen edit: Some books have copied as links, some haven't. The one's which haven't copied, you will find the link in the initial URL in this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 10 May , 2016 Author Share Posted 10 May , 2016 A V.A.D. in France by Olive Dent 1917 Archive.org https://archive.org/details/vadinfrance00dentrich The Canteeners by Agnes M Dixon 1917 Archive.org The author was with the "Cantines des Dames Anglaises" established by the London Committee of the French Red Cross. https://archive.org/details/canteeners00dixo A Red Triangle Girl in France 1918 Archive.orghttps://archive.org/details/redtrianglegirli00newyrich An American girl with the American YMCA. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin spof Posted 10 May , 2016 Admin Share Posted 10 May , 2016 The story of Jane McLennan an Australian Nurse who served for a while in Salonika. An interactive display of her service http://astateofwar.org.au/queenslanders#jane-mclennan Her original diary http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/8332 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 13 May , 2016 Author Share Posted 13 May , 2016 Thanks for posting SPOF. I found this account interesting to read. In fact, I cannot remember reading an account by a nurse for this period of time, 1917. The fight against malaria: "The night staff had to take every precaution against mosquito bites and wore gloves, puttees, hat and a net veil on duty but many of the sisters went down with the disease in spite of these precautions". (page 23). I think this is the only time I have ever seen a reference to women wearing puttees. Perhaps you could mention this memoir on the Salonika Forum Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 21 March , 2017 Author Share Posted 21 March , 2017 Click on the coloured text "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse who left for France with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at General Hospital No. 22, British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the Sue Barton, Nurse series of books for girls. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjharris Posted 14 April , 2017 Share Posted 14 April , 2017 Hi there, Australian nurses also published books about the war but I'm unsure if they are digitised - are you only looking for online resources? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 14 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 14 April , 2017 Yes, I'm looking for digital accounts Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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