War Letters From A Young Queenslander: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
War Letters From A Young Queenslander by Robert Marshall Allen: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 3:42:10 running time and a link to listen.
War Letters From A Young Queenslander, credited to Robert Marshall Allen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of War Letters From A Young Queenslander by Robert Marshall Allen. Read in English by Beth Thomas Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of "de-lousing" an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine trenches and his eyewitness accounts of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Ypres and a contemporary comment on the Gallipoli campaign. He describes how the enemy rains shells on the ambulances and the retrievals of the wounded from the trenches at night. This was also a time of great medical advances, so we hear from a participant the fascinating story of some of the first mass Tetanus inoculations, and the series of experiments surrounding the invention of "vermi-jelly", along with the darker stories of the invention and first uses of chlorine gas. This story of an Australian doctor in The Great War is read by another Australian doctor, and comes complete with Australian slang read in an authentic Aussie accent! (Summary by Beth Thomas)
Recording facts
- Recording title: War Letters From A Young Queenslander
- Author credits: Robert Marshall Allen
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 3:42:10
Catalogue topics
- World War I
- australian history
- medical history
Track guide
- 01 - Aldershot — 17:02
- 02 - Boulogne — 13:58
- 03 - The R.A.M.C at Work — 11:12
- 04 - Connaught Rangers — 17:32
- 05 - Bathing and Laundry Experiences — 8:14
- 06 - Neuve Chapelle — 8:09
- 07 - With The Highlanders at Ypres — 19:48
- 08 - Gas: Bane and Antidote — 13:56
- 09 - Some Lively Incidents — 13:39
- 10 - Gallipoli and Australian reflections — 15:08
- 11 - Odd Jottings of a Quiet Week in the Trenches — 15:20
- 12 - An Anniversary Review — 13:09
- 13 - Battle Scenes: All Along The Line — 24:05
- 14 - Indian Types — 18:16
- 15 - Farewell to Flanders — 12:42
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