We Brought Succour to Belgium, by May Sinclair | 25 September - 13 October 1914 | Epsiode 38

In September 1914 Antwerp presented a formidable obstacle to the German advance to the coast. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Winston Churchill, had at his disposal a Marine Brigade and two more Brigades of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He threw them into the defence of Belgium's key city and for some days their support was of the greatest value. But Antwerp was doomed. Early in 1914 May Sinclair, author of "The Divine Fire," put her pen aside and joined a voluntary field ambulance which went to succour the peoples and armies of Belgium. She writes of her work with her Ambulance Unit when Belgium was the melting pot of Europe.