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Incredible stories of British female doctors and nurses who served abroad during World War I include a nurse who survived a torpedo attack on a ship with serious injuries; caring for the wounded in Malta; nursing the casualties from the battles of Arras and Ypres; a radiologist who created a garden in France; and a VAD nurse in the hospital in Petrograd at the time of Rasputins murder. Extracts from letters and diaries provide a full picture of various first-hand experiences, and honor the often unsung contribution made by those who helped to alleviate suffering. Includes such names as Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland; Grace Ashley Smith; Edith Cavell; Vera Brittain; and Freya Stark.

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WOMEN IN THE
WAR ZONE

Other books edited by Anne Powell:

A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier Poets Killed in France and Flanders
(Palladour, 1993; Sutton Publishing, 1998)

The Fierce Light: The Battle of the Somme July November 1916
(Palladour, 1996; Sutton Publishing 2006)

Shadows of War: British Womens Poetry of the Second World War
(Sutton Publishing, 1999)

WOMEN IN THE
WAR ZONE

Hospital Service in the
First World War

ANNE POWELL
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In memory of the women who cared for and consoled the
wounded, the sick and the refugees during the First World War.

and for Jeremy; Jonathan, Sarah, Amelia and Alexander;
Rupert, Clare, Molly, Jemima and Harriet; Lucinda,
Andrew, Edward, Eleanor and Harry

with my love always

First published in 2009

The History Press

The Mill, Brimscombe Port

Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL 5 2 QG

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

This ebook edition first published in 2011

All rights reserved

Anne Powell, 2009, 2011

The right of Anne Powell, to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the authors and publishers rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

EPUB ISBN 978 0 7524 6951 5

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Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following who have kindly given - photo 2
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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following who have kindly given permission to reproduce copyright material:

The Imperial War Museum for Letter written from occupied Ghent, October 1914, by Grace Ashley Smith, included in Five years with the Allies (19141919): the story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps by Grace McDougall; extracts from Vera Brittains poetry and prose are included by permission of Mark Bostridge and Timothy Brittain-Catlin Literary Executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, 1970; Mrs Mair McCann for extracts from the papers of Mrs D. McCann (Miss Dorothy Brook), held in the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum; the Imperial War Museum for extracts from letters held in the archive of Miss Edith Cavell; trustees of the Imperial War Museum for extracts from the papers of Miss Mairi Chisholm; Mr Peter Spiegl for extracts from Elsie Fenwick in Flanders: The Diaries of a Nurse 1915 1918, Spiegl Press, 1980; Mr Chris Furse for extracts from Hearts and Pomegranates by Katharine Furse, Peter Davies, 1940; Lady Howard de Walden for extracts from Pages from my Life by Margherita Lady Howard de Walden, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965; Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections, Mitchell Library, for the Report written by Dr Frances Ivens; Eric Dobby Publishing for extracts from Flanders and Other Fields, Memoirs of the Baroness de TSerclaes, M.M., George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1964; Mr Giles Pemberton for extracts from the papers of Miss E.B. Pemberton, held in the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum; Mrs Rosemary Marryatt for the letter from Nurse Mildred Rees; Mrs Daphne Loch and family for extracts from the papers of Miss Dorothy Seymour, held in the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum; Mrs Nina Theiss Boll for extracts from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair, Hutchinson & Co., 1915; Mr John R. Murray for extracts from Freya Starks War Diary included in her Travellers Prelude, John Murray, 1950; The Countess of Sutherland for extracts from Six Weeks at the War by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, The Times, 1914; The Hypatia Trust for extracts from Field Hospital and Flying Column by Violetta Thurstan, Putnams, 1915.

Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders for the following whose papers are held in the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum. We would be grateful for any information which might help to trace those whose identities or addresses are not currently known: Miss Bickmore; Sister E. Campbell; Miss Florence Farmborough; Miss Margaret Fawcett; Miss K. Hodges; Miss Amelia (Amy) Nevill; Miss F.E. Rendel; Miss Flora Sandes; Mrs M.A.A. Thomas (Miss Swynnerton).

I have been unable to trace a copyright holder for Lady Paget, whose book With our Serbian Allies: Second Report is held in the Department of Books at the Imperial War Museum. I thank the Imperial War Museum for permission to quote extracts and would be grateful for any information on Lady Paget.

I have been unable to trace copyright holders for the following whose archives are held in the Liddle Collection, University of Leeds: Sister Burgess; Miss Ida Jefferson (Mrs I. Cliffe); Sister Kathleen Mann.

I acknowledge the following books and periodicals from where extracts were taken. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders and we apologise to anyone who inadvertently has not been acknowledged: A British Nurse in Bolshevik Russia The narrative of Margaret H. Barber, April 1916December 1919, A.C. Fifield, 1920; Fanny went to War by Pat Beauchamp, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1940; Edith Cavell by Rowland Ryder, Hamish Hamilton, 1975; War and its Aftermath: Letters from Hilda Clark, M.B., B.S., from France, Austria and the Near East 19141924. Edited by Edith Pye. Privately printed, 1956; Blackwoods Magazine articles (1916, 1917, 1918) by V.C.C. Collum; Letters from a Field Hospital by Mabel Dearmer, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1915; A VAD in France by Olive Dent, Grant Richards, 1917; With a Womans Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol by I. Emslie Hutton, M.D., Williams and Norgate, 1928; Eighteen Months in the War Zone: The Record of a Womans Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finzi, Cassell, 1916; With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania by Yvonne Fitzroy, John Murray, 1918; Dr Elsie Inglis by Lady Frances Balfour, Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920; A Roumanian Diary 1915, 1916, 1917 by Lady Kennard, Heinemann, 1917; Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 19141918 by K.E. Luard, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915; Unknown Warriors: Extracts from the Letters of K.E. Luard, R.R.C., Nursing Sister in France 1914918, Chatto and Windus, 1930; My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. Macnaughtan. Edited by her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young), John Murray, 1919; My Experiences on Three Fronts by Sister Martin-Nicholson, George Allen & Unwin, 1916; Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Womens Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914October 1919 by Dr Flora Murray, CBE., MD., DPH., Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920; Lady Muriel by Wilfrid Blunt, Methuen, 1962; The History of the Scottish Womens Hospitals

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