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'We Too Were Soldiers' by Dr Vivien Newman
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WAAC workers and Chief Ordnance Office Staff, Rouen 1917 ‘We Too Were Soldiers’ 1 By Dr Vivien Newman Viv Newman's long-standing interest in the Great War led, after many years teaching women's war poetry at A level, to a PhD thesis entitled Songs of Wartime Lives: Women's Poetry of the First World War (2004) University of Essex. The …
066: January 2003
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I Embarked for France: The War Diaries and letters of an English family in the Great War: Evelyn Ansell, 19th King’s Liverpool Regiment
Reviewed by Linda Parker. Although this narrative of a family’s journey and the mixed fortunes of war is focused on Evelyn Ansell, its first chapter, describing the end of a family holiday in August 1914, introduces his family as the lens through which the Great War is seen. As Meryl Moore comments 'I read these family letters and lived the war ye…
Vera Brittain - The Militant Pacifist: Misconceptions of her Importance in Military History
By Dr. Phylomena H. Badsey Originally published by the Journal of the Centre for First World Studies. Posted here with permission. Vera Brittain (1897-1970) is best known to this audience for her sixth book Testament of Youth An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925, published in 1933 and based on her own war diary, Chronicle of Yout…
17 December 1918 : Nurse Doris Procter
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Doris was the daughter of a tailor and confectioner. One of five children, she volunteered for V.A.D. service at the outbreak of war in 1914. She was called into service in May 1915. After serving for much of the war at a Military Hospital in Leicester, she caught influenza in December 1918 which developed into the pneumonia that caused he…
CANCELLED : Scopwick House VAD Hospital + Branch AGM
It is with great regret, though understandable given the change in regulation regarding holding meetings, that this meeting has been cancelled.
British Military Nurses and the Great War: a Guide to the Services
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Little has been written about British military nurses during the Great War, and few primary sources have survived, which makes it difficult to piece together even the basic details of the organization and administration of the nursing services during this period. To understand the situation that existed during the war, it is necessary to be familia…
A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
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Feminism of the First Hour? Released in 1933 as Germany faced the beginnings of the rise of fascism, A Testament of Youth recounts the First World War as years of love, desolation and loss leading to a life of pacifism, through the personal narrative of Vera Brittain – a fiancé in waiting turned volunteer nurse. As a middle-class girl from Derb…
The Mobilisation of Britain’s Military Nurses 1914
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The day after Britain entered the First World War, a ward sister at Charing Cross Hospital, Maud Hopton, signed a War Office contract agreeing to serve with the military nursing service 'at home or abroad' for a period of one year. Three days after this Maude found herself at Aldershot with 43 other nurses preparing to embark for France as part of …