Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, credited to Anonymous (attrib: Kathleen Luard), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, by an anonymous author, attributed to Kathleen Luard. Read by: Ruth Golding, Julie VW, Christine Dufour and Marianne Coleman-Hipkins. 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 occasioned 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, Rouen and Le Havre. Towards the end of the account she was posted to a Field Ambulance (station) close to Ypres (Ieper, or in First World War speak 'Wipers') (Summary by Andy Minter)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
• Author credits: Anonymous (attrib: Kathleen Luard)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 6:58:34

Catalogue topics

• first world war
• nursing
• hospital
• ambulance train
• western front
• Ypres
• France
• Belgium

Track guide

1. 01: Waiting for Orders — 46:12
2. 02: Le Mans - Wounded from the Aisne — 45:16
3. 03: First Experiences — 21:03
4. 04: First Battle of Ypres — 42:46
5. 05: Ambulance Train - British and Indians — 44:14
6. 06: Ambulance Train - Christmas and New Year — 30:36
7. 07: Ambulance Train - Winter on the Train and in the Trenches — 45:37
8. 08: Ambulance Train - Rouen, Spring in NW France — 53:23
9. 09: Field Ambulance - Billets, Life at the Back of the Front — 51:54
10. 10: Festubert, Boulogne, Posted — 37:38

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