A
Bibliography of Great War Medicine
This list
comprises books relating to, or including, medical work in the First World War,
together with a number of general books which set the scene. Its origin lies in the construction of a
bibliography for a book on facial injury in the Great War, and the development
of a library relating to medical services of that time to accompany the Gillies
Archives at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Those marked with an * are in the
Gillies Library or in my own personal collection. Items marked with a + indicate that a copy of
the relevant extract is in the archives. The annotations are personal
comments. I would be grateful for
notification of any significant omissions; in addition, details are sometimes
sketchy for works taken from other bibliographies and amendments would be
welcome. Updates are posted regularly.
The
Gillies Archive contains a number of contemporary papers on facial injury, many
written by members of staff of the Queen’s Hospital. These are not included in this bibliography;
with a few important exceptions, material that might be considered a pamphlet
rather than a book has also been excluded.
Jean-Luc
Dupire of
In early
2002 I was contacted by
1. Books related
to the Frognal estate and the origins of the Queen’s Hospital at Sidcup, Kent,
UK
2. Personal
accounts which include reference to facial injury
5. Medical and
nursing textbooks; texts on management & rehabilitation of disability
7. Journals of hospitals and other units
8. Poetry and
artistic representations of injury
9. Bibliographies,
catalogues, theses etc
10. Fiction
11. French and German doctoral theses
12. Russian
material
15. Historical plastic surgery texts
Dr Harris'
History of
A view of Frognal House with formal gardens at the time of
its then owner, Roland Tryon, is one of the folio plates in this work
*Hasted
E. The History and Topographical Survey
of the
W.Bristow,
The standard historical survey of
*
George Virtue,
Contains a plate of Frognal after the formal gardens were
replaced with a “Capability Brown” landscape, drawn by George Shepherd
* Webb EA,
Miller GW, Beckwith J. The History of Chislehurst: its church, manors and
parish.
George Allen,
Contains
a digest of the family history and ownership of Frognal and Scadbury Park
*Frognal Estate Sale Catalogue. Strutt & Parker, 1915
Fully illustrated with photographs of Frognal House, its
grounds, and the extensive farm and residential lots into which the estate had
been divided
2. Books
containing personal accounts of injury and the war
*Aitken
A. Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections
of a
*Aldrich
M. On the edge of the war zone. From the
Booth, Small Maynard & Co, 1917
*Alverdes
P. The Whistlers’ Room (trans B.
Creighton)
A story of a German hospital room occupied by men injured in
the throat, who have tracheostomies and thus “whistled” when attempting to
speak. Classic account of hospital life
*Anon
(ed). Letters from Roger I Lee (
Series
of chatty letters from May 11th 1917, when Lee crossed the
Anon. The Great Advance. Tales from the Somme Battlefield told by wounded
officers and men on their arrival
at
*Anon. Wounded and a Prisoner of War (by an
exchanged Officer).
Hit by a machine gun bullet at Bethancourt, this anonymous
officer was captured during the retreat after
*Armstrong
WW. My first week in
London, Smith Elder & Co, 1916
A Captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers, he was wounded at
St Julien on the 25th April 1916. The
1/7th Battalion sustained 470 casualties that day.
+Ashurst G
(ed Holmes R) My Bit. A
Marlborough, The Crowood Press, 1987
Contains a remarkable description of how the front line
soldier dealt with lice
Blacker J
(ed). Have you forgotten yet? The First
World War memoirs of C.P. Blacker MC, GM
Blacker
was wounded at the end of the war and describes his journey through the medical
system with remarkable calm
*Blanchin
L. Chez Eux. Souvenirs de guerre et de
captivité
The author was wounded in August 1914 and
held as a prisoner in German hospitals and camps until June 1915.
*Boderke D
(ed). Words from the Wounded. Injured Soldiers’ view of the Trenches of the
First World War
Countryside, n.d.
A profusely illustrated book derived from two autograph
books belonging to a nurse, Cissie Holden, of Blackburn, Lancs
*Booth
M. With the B.E.F. in
Diary notes compiled by Adjutant
Mary Booth, granddaughter of the founder of the Salvation Army. An illustrated personal account with some
background on the work of the Army in comforting the wounded
*Carr
W. A Time to Leave the Ploughshares. A Gunner Remembers 1917-18.
Describes the facial injury of an artillery officer who had
only arrived at the front a few hours before
*Carrington
CE. Soldiers from the Wars Returning.
London, Hutchinson & Co, 1965
A classic account from an officer; robust, with no
regrets. Very much a “Haig” man
Carstairs
C. A Generation Missing
Carroll
Carstairs, an American, served with the Royal Artillery and Grenadier Guards
having enlisted by claiming to be a Canad
*“Casualty”. Contemptible.
Memoir of the retreat from
*Cunningham
T. 1914-1918: The Final Word
Interviews with survivors, all at the time in their 90s or more
(and with memories somewhat dimmed as a result) but including the account of a
104 year old lady ambulance driver
* Fraser of Lonsdale.
My Story of St Dunstans
London,
Harrap & Co, 1961
Ian Fraser was wounded and blinded at the
age of 19 on July 23rd 1916.
Treated at St Dunstan’s, he became its head on the death of its founder,
Arthur Pearson, in 1924. While primarily
a history of the institution it provides a moving record and personal insight
into the lives of many men blinded by war.
Freinet C. Touché! Souvenirs d’un blessé de guerre
Atelier du Gué,
1996 (limited edition of 1000)
Célestin Freinet was the founder of the
French educational movement “L’Imprimerie à l’école”; this slim volume was
published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth and
records his wartime experience as a casualty
*Genel R. Le Journal de mon Père.
Panazol /
Paris, Lavauzelle 1990:
Presented
by his son, this is the memoir of a soldier, mobilized in 1915, who fought in
the infantry. Injured and paralysed, he
was cured by the famous Prof. Babinsky (q.v.) using electric shock treatment. He joined the French Foreign Legion after the
war and served in
*Gibbons F. And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight
George H. Doran
Company,
Floyd Gibbons, a renowned journalist, describes being shot in the face at
*Glubb J. Into
Glubb Pasha survived the war and his facial injury (treated
at Sidcup, and described here in detail) to play a major part in
*D’Hartoy
M. Au Front. Impressions et souvenirs
d'un officier blessé
Paris, Perrin, 1916:
D'Hartoy
M. Des cris dans la tempète. Nouvelles
impressions et nouveaux récits d'un officier blessé
Paris,
Perrin, 1919
*Hay MV. Wounded and a prisoner of war
Major Hay (3rd Battalion, Gordon
Highlanders) was wounded in the head at the start of the war, eventually being
repatriated from Würtzberg
*Hennebois C. Aux
Mains De L'allemagne. Journal d'un grand blessé
Paris,
Plon-Nourrit, 1919
*Kreisler
F. Four weeks in the trenches
Fritz
Kreisler, the eminent violinist, served briefly on the Russ
de Larmandie H.
Blessé, Captif, Délivré. (Wounded, captured and delivered)
Paris, Bloud et Gay, 1916
Lehmann F. Wir von der Infanterie. Tagebuchblätter eines bayerischens
Infanteristen aus fünfjähriger Front- und Lazarettzeit (We Infantry. Leaves
from a diary of a Bavar
München, Lehmanns Verlag, 1929
*Leleux C.
Feuilles de route d’un ambulancier
Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1915
+MacGill P. The Great Push.
+Martin
B. Poor Bloody Infantry. A Subaltern on the Western Front 1916-17.
*Mathieson
WD. My Grandfather’s War.
*Milne
JS. Neurasthenia, Shell-Shock, and a New
Life
Newcastle, R Robinson & Co, 1918
A
slim “self help” manual by a sufferer, carefully and precisely written and with
some reasonable advice, based on the bizarre premise that the brain has floated
out of position in the skull, disturbing the correct flow of blood
*Morelli A. (in:
Marie Sklodowska Curie et la Belgique). Marie Curie sur le front belge pendant
la première guerre mondiale.
Brussels, Université Libre de
Bruxelles, 1990
About the introduction
of X-rays on the front in
*Nichols A. Sons of
Victory.
A base camp instructor, he was blinded in a training
accident while demonstrating demolition techniques; the explosive charge had
mistakenly been fitted with an instantaneous fuse
*Nobbs G. Englishman
Kamerad! Right of the British Line.
Nobbs served with the
Olivier, Capitaine.
Onze mois de captivité dans les hôpitaux allemands
Paris, Chapelot, 1916
*Tennant
N. A Saturday Night Soldier's War
1913-1918.
Waddesdon, The Kylin Press, 1983
Tennant was wounded by a shrapnel fragment which passed
through his nose and lodged below the right eye
Vecchini D.
Blessure et belle humeur.
La maison française, 1918
3. Accounts
by, or biographies of, doctors, nurses, ambulancemen and others involved in the
care of the wounded soldier
*Abraham
JJ. My Balkan Log
J. Johnston Abraham’s description of his Serb
*Abraham
JJ. Surgeon’s Journey.
Abraham was originally posted to Serbia, and thereafter
served in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine
*Adam F. “Sentinelles… Prenez garde à vous…”. Souvenirs
et enseignements de quatre ans de guerre avec le 23ème R.I., par un médecin
Paris, Legrand, 1933
The author served as a battalion
medical officer from November 1914, for three years, then as a regimental
medical officer until the end of the war
Alexinskaya
T. Parmi les blessés. Carnet de route
d'une aide-doctoresse russe
Paris,
Armand Colin, 1916
*Allbee
F. A Surgeon’s Fight to Rebuild Men
Autobiography of the famous American pioneer of bone
grafting, with extensive descriptions of his experience on the Western Front,
including many observations on facial injury.
He found time to write a monograph on bone grafts (q.v.) although this
contains little of military interest
*Alport
AC. The lighter side of the War
Major Alport RAMC served in S. Africa, on the Salonika front
and finally in France
*
*Andrew, A.
Piatt. Letters from
Privately printed, 1916
This limited edition describes his own early experience as
an ambulance driver and comments on war and its horrors. Andrew later became head of the American
Field Service.
*Anon. A War Nurse's diary: sketches from a Belg
An illustrated account of nursing from the outbreak of war
to the author’s departure from
*Anon. An American V.A.D. 88 BIS and V.I.H.: Letters
from two hospitals.
The author's letters from France written from 14 January to
23 March 1917, and with the 76th Detachment, Cheshire County Division, British
Red Cross Society from 12 April to 28 December 1917
*Anon. Happy ‑ Though Wounded: the book of the
3rd
London, Country
Life 1917
Outlines some of the work of the hospital, mostly in a
light-hearted vein.
The contributors are those who ran the Gazette (q.v.) and include Ward
Muir (q.v.),the “Punch cartoonist JH Dowd, Christopher
Nevinson (some of whose illustrations are reminiscent of his War Artist work)
and J Hodgson Lobley, who later painted scenes at the Queen's Hospital Sidcup
Anon. Hommage à sa
majesté la reine Elisabeth: la Guerre 1914-1918
La Panne, S.T.T., no date (1964)
Queen Elisabeth of
Anon. Journal d'une Infirmière sur le Front Russe
Paris,
Gallimard, 1936
Anon. Kriegs-Erinnerungen eines
Korps-Stabs-Apothekers (War memories of a pharmacist officer)
Mittenwald, n.d (c.1920)
Anon. Le Faux Miroir. Reflections from the
Ash & Co, 1917
A
copy is in the
*Anon. Letters from a French hospital
Letters from an English nurse to her uncle describing events
in 1915 and 1916
Anon.
“Doc”. Letters from Somewhere (by a captain in the R.A.M.C., from
*Anon. “Mademoiselle Miss”. Letters from a American girl serving with the
rank of Lieutenant in a French Army hospital at the front
Anon. Nursing adventures: a F.A.N.Y. in
*Anon. The diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western
Front 1914-1915
*Anon. The Edith Cavell Nurse from
Following a memorial service for Edith Cavell in
Anon. The Tale of a casualty clearing station
Anon. Two years’ Captivity in
*Anon.
Uncensored Letters from the
A first-hand account by a French
Medical officer of the events leading to the battle of Gallipoli. Relates
details along the route to Gallipoli via
*Anon. War Nurse.
The True Story of a Woman who Lived, Loved and Suffered on the Western
Front.
Illustrated with a series of stills from an
“All-Talking Picture” made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
*Anon.
(Sergeant-Major, RAMC). With the RAMC in
*A Red
Cross Pro. The Wards in Wartime
Edinburgh, Wm Blackwood & Sons,
1916
Amusing account of a provincial convalescent hospital
Memoir
of a Canad
*Ashford
BK. A Soldier in Science
An American pathologist on the Western Front, 1917-18.
*Askew C, Askew A.
The Stricken Land.
The authors were writers attached to
the 1st British Field Hospital.
The Red Cross bibliography indicates that they were “outspoken in
denunciation of the allies’ mismanagement of aid”
Badolle R. Vie medico-chirurgicale
d'un médecin retenu pendant deux ans en captivité allemande
Lyon, A. Rey, 1917
The author was a prisoner at
Reserve-Lazarett in
*Bagnold
E. Diary without dates
*Balfour,
Lady F. Dr Elsie Inglis
Biography of the leading light of the Scottish Women’s
Hospitals
*Barclay F.L.G.
In hoc vince: the story of a Red Cross Flag
Putnam, 1915
*Barclay
HA. Doctor in
Expeditionary Forces
Baumann
F. La fucilazione di Edith Cavell
*Bayly
HW. Triple challenge; or, War,
whirligigs and windmills, a doctor's memoirs
Starting his war service in the
Navy, Bayly was with the Guards on the
Beadnell C
Marsh. A Naval Medical Officer’s impressions of a visit to the Trenches
Bale & Danielssohn, 1917
*Beauchamp
P. Fanny goes to war
*Beauchamp
P. Fanny went to war
*Beckmann
M. Briefe im Kriege.
München, A. Langen – G. Müller, 1955
War letters of the well- known
expressionist painter Max Beckmann who was a stretcher bearer in WWI
*Begg
RC. Surgery on Trestles: a Saga of
Suffering and Triumph
Describes the
*Bell
FG. Surgeon’s Saga
Autobiography of the distinguished
Bennett
AH. English Medical Women: glimpses of
their work in peace and war
*Benson
I. The Man with the
Donkey. John Simpson Kirkpatrick,
The Good Samaritan of Gallipoli
Benson
SC. 'Back from hell'
Chicago, McClurg, 1918
*Bertrand de Laflotte D.
Dans les Flandres. Dunkerque, Zuydcoote, Houten, Furnes, Coxyde, Adinkerke,
La Panne. Notes d'un volontaire de la
Croix-Rouge, 1914-1915
Paris, Barcelone, Bloud / Gay, 1917
*Bicknell,
E P. Pioneering with the Red Cross. Recollections of an Old Red Crosser
NY, MacMillan 1935
Ernest Bicknell began life as a
newspaperman, subsequently being appointed Secretary of the Ind
*Binyon
L. For Dauntless
Laurence Binyon served with an Ambulance Unit behind the
French front
H&S,
n.d. (c.1918)
The
pseudonym of Canon Hanny, describing life in hospitals, convalesecnet camps
etc; one such, identified by the dedicatee, Rosamund Leather, is “My Third
Camp” in Chapter 15 – the Marlborough
Details Camp, Boulogne
Bizard
L. Souvenirs d'un médecin de la
Prefecture de police et des prisons de Paris (1914-1918)
Paris,
Grasset, 1925
*Black
EW. Hospital heroes
*Blackham
Col RJ. Scalpel, Sword and
Stretcher.
London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co
Ltd.,
*Bland-Sutton
J. The Tale of a Convoy
Sir
John Bland-Sutton travelled with a convoy and wrote a series of pieces for the
“Morning Post” collected in this slim volume.
A surgeon, he was a friend of Kipling and persuaded the writer to give
the introductory lecture to new students at the
Booth
M. With The B.E.F. in
Mary
Booth was the grand-daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army; the book
describes her work among the wounded on the Western front
*Borden,
Mary. The Forbidden Zone.
A moving account of nursing experiences; as a result of writing
this book, Borden was asked to leave the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich
*Boschi G (ed.).
La Guerra e le Arti Sanitarie. Collezione Ital
*Botcharsky
S, Pier F. They Knew How To Die. Being a Narrative of the Personal Experiences of a Red Cross Sister on the Russ
Front line hospital experiences
Boubée,
l’Abbé Joseph. Parmi les blesses
allemands (Among the wounded in
Plon-Nourrit, 1916
*Bowerbank F. A Doctor’s Story
Wellington,
HH Tombs Ltd, 1958
Sir Fred Bowerbank arrived in New
Zealand from England in 1907, subsequently serving in both world wars. His Great War experience (in Egypt, France and
England, where he was at the 1st NZ General Hospital at Brockenhurst
in the New Forest), is detailed in chapters 7-13. He records that Pickerill’s jaw unit, based
at No 2 Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, was visited by the Queen who suggested “…it
would be better in every way if his staff and patients were transferred to the
Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, where the famous plastic
surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, also a New Zealander, was in charge. I am afraid that neither the dental surgeon
nor the patients were keen on such a move and consequently nothing was done
about it. When Her Majesty visited the
hospital some weeks later, she found the ‘jaw section’ still there, and
expressed her surprise that it had not been moved. A week later and instruction came from the
War Office…”
*Bowerman,
GE Jr. (Ed. Carnes MC). The
Compensations of War: The Diary of an
Ambulance driver during the Great War
Austin,
Bowerman served as an ambulance driver in
*Boyd W. With a field ambulance at
Toronto, Musson Book Company, 1916
*Boyd-Orr,
1st baron. As I recall
R.A.M.C. and Naval service.
Some interesting observations on courts-martial for desertion; he
suggests that many medical and other officers would use any excuse to find
mitigating circumstances
*Boylston
HD. 'Sister': the war diary of a nurse
*
The
wife of Sir John Rose Bradford, Consulting Physic
Brassine V. Ma Campagne de Russie avec le Corps
Expeditionnaire Belge des autos-canons-mitrailleuses. in Namur, Belgium,
privately printed, n.d. (1957 or 1958)
A scarce memoir of a military
doctor. In August 1914, he was chief of the medical staff of Fort of Lierre
(Lier, in
Breitner
B. Unvervundet Gefangen - Aus meinem
Sibirischen Tagebuch.
(A Prisoner, but not wounded. From my Siber
Rikola Verlag, 1921
An account of a doctor’s experience as a POW in
*Britnieva,
M. One woman's story
English born, Mary Britnieva served as a nurse on the Russ
*Brittain
V. Testament of friendship
*Brittain
V. Chronicle of Youth. Vera Brittain’s war diary 1913-1917
Bruce
C. Humour in tragedy, hospital life
behind three Fronts
*Bradley
AO. Back of the front in
*Bryan
JH. Ambulance 464. Encore des
Blessés
New
York, Macmillan, 1918
Jul
Bucher
WE. Surgeon Errant
Description of the 3rd American Red Cross
*Burke K. The
New
York, George H Doran Company, 1916
Account by Kathleen Burke of her nursing
experience in France and Serbia
*Buswell L. With the American
Ambulance Field Service in
Privately Printed,
*Buswell
L. Ambulance No. 10: personal letters
from the Front
Leslie Buswell served with SSU 2
*
Privately printed memoirs in an edition of 300 of an
American's service with the Red Cross in World War I.
*Byam
W. The Road to
William
Byam’s autobiography, covering his war service and detailing his involvement,
inter alia, with the investigation of the cause of trench fever at the Heart
Hospital, Hampstead with Lloyd and others; he contributed to Lloyd’s book on
lice (q.v.). His description of the
experiments is graphic. Having proved
that the infection was transmitted though the lice droppings, and would only
occur if these were scratched into the skin, he confirmed that oral ingestion
was not a factor by feeding sandwiches laced with louse excreta to two “gallant
souls”. He also noted that US soldiers
with typhoid fever did not develop dry and foul mouths because they chewed gum
Cahill
AF (ed). Between the Lines: Letters and
Diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russ
Bishop Auckland, Pentland Press, 1999
*Carossa H.
A Rouman
NY, Alfred A. Knopf 1930
In his “War Books”,
*Catchpool
TC. On two fronts.
Corder Catchpool was a conscientious objector
*Cator
D. In a French military hospital
A whimsical observation of work in a French hospital, seen through
English eyes. There is scarce a good
word for French professionals; the filth of the wards appears to pass unnoticed
except by the fastidious English
Caujole P.
Les Tribulations d'une Ambulance Française en Perse
Author's
self publishing, 1959.
A French medical mission in the massacres in
Chagnaud,
Docteur. Avec le 15-2. Journal et
lettres de Guerre
Paris, Payot, 1933
The record runs from May 10th 1917 to November 11th 1918 (From Chemin
des Dames to
*Chapin
H. Soldier and Dramatist: Being the
Letters of Harold Chapin, American Citizen who Died for
Letters from training in
*Clarke-Kennedy
A.E. Edith Cavell
When the war broke out Edith Cavell was matron of Dr.
Depages's Training School for Nurses in Brussels' Barkendalle Medical
Institute; the Germans allowed her to continue her work and the Institute
became a Red Cross Hospital at which German and Allied wounded were
treated. She was executed on 12th
October 1915 for aiding the escape of Belg
*Clarke
RG. The Evolution of a Casualty Clearing
Station on the Western Front.
Transcript of a paper presented to the Society at their
Annual Meeting in 1936
Cobbold L. In Blue and Gray. Sketches of life in Red
Cross Hospitals
*Cope
Z. Almroth Wright, Founder of Modern Vaccine
Therapy
Wright was instrumental in developing ant-typhoid vaccine
*Corbet E. Red Cross
in
Banbury,
Cheney & Sons, 1964
Nursing experiences from Salonika to Serbia
“Corporal”. Field
Ambulance Sketches
Cox H. The "Red Cross Launch
Natula
Publications, 2002
The diary details the work of the Red Cross
launches on the rivers of
*Coyle
ER. Ambulancing on the French front
Ibid. Field ambulance sketches
Coyle served with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance
*Crémieux
J. Souvenirs d'une Infirmière
Paris, Rouff (Coll. Patrie #52), 1918
Reminiscences of a
French nurse at the beginning of WW1 (August 1914 - May 1915).
*Crichton-Harris A.
Seventeen Letters to Tatham. A
WW1 surgeon in
The only account I have seen of a
medical man in this theatre, based on letters written by the author’s
grandfather Temple Harris to his brother in India
Crile GW. (ed Grace Crile) An Autobiography
George Crile was a surgical pioneer
who describes some of his Great War experience in this 2 volume autobiography,
edited by his wife and published four years after his death. Following the Great War he was instrumental
in establishing the Cleveland Clinic
*de Croy, Princesse M.
Souvenirs, 1914-1918
Paris, Plon (Coll. Le Martyre des Pays
envahis), 1933
A nursing memoir of a Belg
*Culpin M.
Psychoneuroses of War and Peace
*Cummings EE. The
Enormous Room.
Cummings served with the Norton-Harjes
Ambulance and was arrested by the French, detailing his experiences in this
book
*Cushing H. From a
Surgeon's Journal 1915-1918.
London, Constable & Co., 1936
Probably the most famous account of surgery at the front by
the distinguished American neurosurgeon
*Cutler GR
(ed. CH Knickerbocker) Of Battles Long
Ago
*Dauzat A.
Impressions et Choses Vues (Juillet - Décembre 1914). Les Préliminaires
de guerre. Le carnet d'un infirmier militaire. Le journal de Barzac
Paris, Attinger, n.d.
*Davies
EC. Ward tales
Miss
Chivers Davies was a VAD who sketched “the atmosphere and outlook of a big
*Dearmer M. Letters
from a Field Hospital.
Mabel Dearmer was married to Percy, Canon of
*Dearden
H. Medicine and duty. A war diary
Taking its title from the commonest prescription of a
medical officer— the supply of some medicament and passing fit for duty— this
is an often graphic description of the work of a front line battalion medical
officer
*Ibid. Time and chance
The second part of Harold Dearden’s
biography, covering 1914-1939 (the first part was entitled “The Wind of
Circumstances”
Dease
A With the French Red Cross
*Delaporte S (ed). Les
carnets de l'aspirant Laby, Medécin dans les tranchées. 28 juillet 1914 - 14 juillet 1919
(Notebooks of Probationer Laby, doctor in the trenches, 28th July
1914 – 14th July 1919)
Paris, Bayard, 2001
Lucien Laby served in most of the
major engagements of the Western Front throughout the war, finally going down
with “Spanish Flu” in July 1918. He recommenced his medical studies in
*Dent O. A V.A.D. in
London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1917
*Depage H. La Vie
d’Antoine Depage
Brussels,
La Renaissance du Livre, 1956
A limited edition biography of a famous Belg
*
Derby was Division Surgeon to the Second Division, AEF, and
describes a number of hospitals between the front line and Juilly, including
the gas hospital (Field Hospital No 16) at Luzancy
*Dexter
M. In the soldier's service
*Dixon J (intro). Little Grey Partridge
The First World War diary of Isobel Ross, who served with
the Scottish Women’s Hospitals’ unit in Serbia
*
? publisher, 1997
WWI letters from William Shaw Antliff, stretcher bearer with
9th Field Ambulance,
*Dolbey
R.V. A Regimental Surgeon in War and
Prison.
MO with the KOSB.
Captured at La Bassée during 1st
*Duhamel G. Vie
des Martyrs 1914-16
Paris, Mercure de France, 1918
Translated (Simmons F) as *The New
Book of Martyrs (New York, George H. Doran 1918). A moving account of injured French soldiers
at hospitals near to the front line (in particular at
*Dunham F,
Haigh RH, Turner PW (Eds). The long carry. The journal of stretcher bearer
Frank Dunham 1916-1918.
*Dunn
JC. The War the Infantry Knew 1914-19
Dunn was medical officer to the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch
Fusiliers, and served with Sassoon and Robert Graves. This book comprises the diaries of many men,
as well as his own experiences. Hailed
as the classic text on front line medical experience, it is often rather dull.
*von
Eiselsberg A. Lebenseg eines Chirugen (A
Surgeon’s Life)
Tyrolia Verlag, 1949
Memoirs of WW1 medical experience
*Estcourt
Hughes J. Henry Simpson Newland. A biography
Chapter V details Newland’s war experience as a plastic
surgeon at Sidcup
Eeman H.
Captivité
Brussels, La Renaissance du Livre, 1984
Memoirs of a Belg
*Enke-Habermaas L. Drei Jahre im Lazarettzug, 1915-1918. Nach
Tagebuchblättern (3 years in an ambulance train, 1915-1918. From diary sheets)
A tiny book of 30 pages, with photographic
illustrations. As is common for books of
this period it is in gothic script
Eydoux‑Dem
*Eydoux‑Dem
Paris,
Plon-Nourrit, 1915
*Farmborough
F. Nurse at the Russ
An interesting account illustrated by the author’s own
photographs
*Fenwick
P. Gallipoli diary
Percival
Fenwick was Director of New Zealand Medical Services, landing on the first NZ
boat. The diary runs from 24th
April to June 28th when he was posted to
*Fèvre M. Guerre et Chirurgie.
Souvenirs du blessé et du chirurgien
(France), SEGEP, 1953
Memoirs of WW1 and WW2.
*Finzi K.
Eighteen Months in the War Zone. The
record of a woman’s work on the Western Front
A diary from October 1914 to February 1916, when Kate Finzi
returned to
Fitzroy Y. With
the Scottish Nurses in Roumania.
*Florez, C
de. No. 6: a few pages from the diary of
an ambulance driver
Furse
K. Hearts and Pomegranates: The Story of
Forty-Five years 1875-1920.
Katherine Furse was Commandant in Chief of the Joint Women's
VADs and several chapters relate to her work there
*Gaëll R. Ces
soutanes sous la mitraille. Scenes de guerre
Paris, Gautier,
1915
War account by a nurse-priest.
*Gaéll
R. Dans la bataille. Scène de guerre
(Nouvelle série)
Niort, H Boulord, 1916
The
second part of “Ces soutanes sous la mitraille”
*Gallagher
CJ (ed Mary E Malloy). The Cellars of Marcelcave:
A Yank Doctor in the BEF
Gallagher describes the service of his grandfather Bernard
from the Atlantic passage in late 1917 to the end of 1918. Serving in the front line, he was captured in
the March 1918 retreat
Gervis
H. Arms and the doctor, being the
military experiences of a middle-aged medical man
*Gibbs Sir
P. Realities of War.
Observations of a War correspondent
Gleason AH. Young Hilda at the wars.
New York,
Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1915.
*Gleason
AH. With the first War ambulance in
*Gleichen
H. Contacts and contrasts
Autobiography
of Helena Gleichen, daughter of the Prince and Princess Victor of Hohenlohe
Langenburg. She trained as a
radiographer at the outbreak of war, and worked on the Ital
Godfroy L. Les
Cités Meurtries. Souvenirs d'Ambulance et de captivité (de Noyon à Holzminden)
Paris, L'Eclair (Coll. Champs
de Bataille 1914-18), n.d.
*Gosse
P. Memoirs of a Camp Follower
Life as a Medical Officer on the Western Front and in
Got
A. L'affaire Miss Cavell
Paris, Plon, 1921
*Gower M F
Duchess of Sutherland. Six weeks at the war
*Grow
MC. Surgeon Grow, an American in the
Russ
Malcolm Grow chose to join a front line Russ
*Gray
T. Hospital days in
*Greeman
E. Grandpa’s War. The French adventures of a World War 1
Ambulance driver
*Groc L. Les brancardiers
du Bois le prêtre (Stretcher-bearers of Priests Wood)
(
*Guitton GSJ. Un
preneur d'ames : Louis Lenoir, aumonier des marsouins, 1914-1917
Paris, J. de Gigord / Action Populaire
/ SPES, 1921
Gsell
P. Edith Cavell
Paris, Larousse, 1916
*Gummer
S. The Chavasse Twins
The story of Noel Chavasse, VC and bar, and his twin brother Christopher, who became
Bishop of
Harden
HSS.
*Hardon AF. 43bis. War Letters of an American V.A.D.
*Harmer
M. The Forgotten Hospital
By the son of Dr William Harmer, who worked at the
*Harrison
Chicago, Seymour 1947
*Hays
HM. Cheerio!, an American medical
officer with the British Army
*Herringham Sir W. A
Physic
A senior physic
*Higonnet
MR (ed). Nurses at the Front. Writing the Wounds of the Great War
Extracts
from the writing of Ellen de Motte (The backwash of War) and Mary Borden (The
Forbidden Zone) with a 38 page introduction by Margaret Higonnet, who also
edited an anthology of women’s writings on WW1 (Lines of Fire)
*His
W. German doctor at the Front
Originally
published as Die Front der Ärzte,
*Hoehling
AA. Edith Cavell
London, Cassell & Co, 1958
*Huard
FW. My home in the field of mercy
New York, George H Doran Co, 1917
Sequel
to “My home in the field of honour”, this book by the Chatelaine of the Chateau
de Villiers, near Charly sur
*Hungerford
E. With the doughboy in
*Hutton
IE. With a woman's unit in
Ibid. Memories of a Doctor in War and Peace
Chapters
14-19 cover her WW1 experience
*
The author visited and studied medical arrangements on the
Western Fronts in 1917, writing this account of medical experience. One chapter entitled “New Faces for Old”
outlines some facial surgery techniques. It is comprehensive, but marred by
repetition and a virulent writing style in which women are patronised and the
Hun is vilified. Special loathing and
contempt is reserved for prostitutes; he quotes “experimental examinations”
that show up to three-quarters as being feeble minded, and suggests that if
detected early (by screening tests between the ages of nine and eleven) they
could be segregated and educated in special colonies until the age of
forty-five.
*Huxtable C. From
the Somme to
Huxtable served with the 2nd Battn, Lancashire Fusiliers
*Imbrie
RW. Behind the wheel of a war ambulance
*Javal
A. La Grande
Pagaïe (1914-1918)
Paris, Denoël, 1937
*Jeans
TT. Reminiscences of a Naval Surgeon
Surgeon Rear-Admiral on hospital ship in
*Judd
JR. With the American Ambulance in
An interesting book (with graphic cover), Judd describes his
work at the American Hospitals at
Kahn A. Journal de guerre d'un Juif
patriote.1914-1918
France, Jean-Claude Simoën, 1978
The author, a French advocate, was a stretcher-bearer during
WW1. His diary is mainly about the 1914-15 period, when he was on the front
line in
*Kay
S. Froth and Bubble
A small pamphlet describing a few episodes of hospital work
(largely in the
*Keynes
G. The Gates of Memory
Autobiography
of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, surgeon and bibliophile, who was related by marriage to
the Darwin family and had a large circle of friends and acquaintances including
Rupert Brooke (for whose literary estate he was Trustee) and Siegfried Sassoon. Chapter 11 relates his WW1 surgical
experience
*King
H. One Woman at War. Letters of Olive King 1915-1920
Melbourne, University Press 1986
Letters of an independent-minded Austral
*Klein
F. The Diary of a French Army Chaplain.
London, Andrew
Melrose Ltd, 1915
ibid. La Guerre vue d'une Ambulance
Paris, A. Colin, 1915
Account of the first months of WW1
at American Ambulance in
Klein F. Les
douleurs qui esperent
Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin,
n.d.
By the same author
*Koch HB.
Militant Angel
NY, Macmillan Company
1951
Biography of Annie W.
Goodrich, suffragist and pacifist, and
the organizer and dean of the
Kugler F. Erlebnisse eines Schweizers in den
Dardanellen und an der französischen
front
Zürich, Orell Füssli, 1916
Labry R.
Avec l'armée serbe en retraite à travers l'Albanie et le
Montenegro. Journal de route d'un
officier d'administration de la mission medicale francaise en Serbie
Paris, Perrin, 1916
*La Motte EN. Backwash of war
*de Launoy J.
Infirmières de Guerre en Service Commandé (front de 14 a 18).
Bruxelles, L’Édition Universelle, no
date
The preface indicates this was written in 1937. In diary form, it recounts work at La Panne
and Vinckem with Dr Antoine Depage
*Laval E.
Souvenirs d’un médecin-major, 1914-1917
Paris, Payot, 1932
Édouard Laval was a colonel in the reserve; this book is his
diary. It is one of a
large collection of “mémoires, etudes et documents pour server à l’histoire de
la guerre mondiale” from the same
publisher
*Laveille ESJ. Au service des blesses, 1914-1918
Bruxelles-Paris, Action
Catholique-Libr. Giraudon,
1923:
Life and death of 13 very young Belg
*
*
Edinburgh, Livingstone, 1956
Arbuthnot Lane was head of army surgery in the Great War,
and instrumental in supporting Gillies and the development of a specialist
facial injury hospital at Sidcup
*Lee RI.
Letters from Roger I. Lee,
Privately Printed,
*Leneman
L. Elsie Inglis
Edinburgh, NMS Publishing, 1998
Modern biography of the founder of the Scottish Women’s
Hospitals from a series of “readable biographies of famous Scots”
Leng W St
Q. S.S.A.10: notes on the work of a
British Volunteer Ambulance convoy with the French Army
The author was a volunteer ambulance
driver with the 2nd French Army (of
*Léri A. Les
Commotions et emotions de Guerre
Paris, Masson, 1918
Describes cases of early
psychoneurosis & discusses the relation between physical and mental causes
Lesceux H. Sous le
signe de la Croix-Rouge. Journal d'un
brancardier de la Grande Guerre
Chimay (
Lewis
TE. Twelve months in an
*Lindsay
D. The Leafy Tree. My Family
Melbourne, FW Cheshire, 1965
Account by Daryl Lindsay of his
life and family. The whole family was
artistic; Lindsay began his war service with the ASC and was recruited as a War
Artists himself through the efforts of Will Dyson, married to his sister Ruby. His appointment to Sidcup came as the result
of a chance meeting and he describes his time there in Chapter 9, along with
Ruby’s death from Spanish flu
*
Lord
JR. The story of the war hospital, Epsom
*Luard
KE. Unknown Warriors.
*Lucas
EV. Outposts of mercy: the record of a
visit in 1916 to the various units
of the British Red Cross in
A tiny card backed book by a famous travel writer. He notes that there was a facial injury
hospital at
Mann
S (ed). The war diary of Clare Gass,
1915-1918.
Clare Gass served at the 3rd
Martin
K. Father Figures: A Volume of Autobiography.
Kingsley Martin inherited from his father
the faith that individual conscience comes before State, or Party or worldly
success. A passionate pacifist in WWI, he was a member of the Friends'
Ambulance Unit, and describes the strange life of an ambulance orderly in
McCombe J,
Menzies AF. Medical service at the Front
*McDougall,
G. A nurse at the war: nursing
adventures in
Grace McDougall, a FANY, worked for
Belg
*Macfarlane N.
Ian Macfarlane. Soldier and
Medical Missionary
One of a series of
“Beacon Biographies published by the Society. Compiled from diaries and
letters, the latter part of the book details Macfarlane’s work in
Maclaren ES.
Elsie Inglis, the Woman with the Torch (Pioneers of Progress
series)
*Macnaughtan
S. A woman's diary of the war
*Macnaughton
S. My war experiences in two continents
Macqueen
JM. Our war, being the experiences in
Halesowen,
MacQueen, 1931
Magnien J. Le 6ème
bataillon de chasseurs a pied de Vincennes, 1914-1918. Feuilles de route de l'ancien Sergent Brancardier
Paris, Almanach du Combattant, no date
(1936)
*von Malade T.
."Feldarzt". von Amiens bis Aleppo
Malade was an surgeon [Feldarzt] with the German Army; this
is his diary which begins in August 1914 with the invasion of
*Malcolm
I. War pictures behind the lines
*Manion
RJ. A surgeon in arms
Experiences of a Canad
*Martin
AA. A Surgeon in Khaki
Martin worked at the No 6 Hospital, Rouen
*Martin P-A.
Albert Martin (1866-1948).
Souvenirs d’un chirurgien de la Grande Guerre
Luneray, Editions Bertout, 1996
Based
on Martin’s diaries. He was a friend and
colleague of Georges Duhamel (q.v.)
*Martin‑Nicholson,
Sister. My experiences on three Fronts
Matthews G. Experiences
of a Woman Doctor in
Mills & Boon, 1916
Caroline Matthews served with the Serb
Maugny,
Comtesse Clément de. Au Royaume du
Bistouri
Album of cartoons about life of
nurses at the front. Preface by Marcel Proust (who published nothing during the
war)
McQueen
JM. Our War: Being the Experiences in
Dudley, Tom Price (printer), n.d. (c.1931)
Privately
printed memoir of an RAMC TF sanitary officer
*Members of
Her Majesty Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service.
Reminiscent Sketches 1914 to 1919
London, John Bale, Sons &
Danielsson Ltd, 1922
Muenier P-A.
L'angoisse de Verdun. Notes d'un conducteur d'auto-sanitaire
Nancy, Presses Universitaires, 1991:
Second ed. (First ed.: 1919)
*Millard
S. I saw them die
Memoir of a
Mills,
AH. Hospital days
*Mitchell C
van S. With a military ambulance in
*Mitton GE
(ed). The cellar‑house of Pervyse
Describes the work of Baroness de T’Serclaes and Mairi
Chisholm, who set up an advance first aid post for the Belg
*Mompezat M.
Ambulance H24
Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1930
Account of a military
ambulance during WW1.
*Moran,
Lord. The Anatomy of Courage.
London, Constable & Co, 1945
An essay of great stature on courage, and the lack of it.
Charles Wilson, Lord Moran, served with the Royal Fusiliers for two years
before being posted to a base hospital
Moon
ERP. Four weeks as acting Commandant at
the Belg
*
*Moran
H. Viewless Winds. Being the Recollections and Digressions of an
Austral
Herbert
Moran captained the first amateur Austral
*Moynihan M
(Ed).
Newton Abbot, David & Charles,
1975
Contains
a chapter about Capt J.S.S. Martin, RAMC, who was present during the siege of
Kut
Muir
JR. Years of Experience
Surgeon Rear-Admiral Muir’s experience was in
*Muir
W. The Happy Hospital.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co., 1918
*Muir
W. Observations of an Orderly
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co., 1917
Two brill
*Munthe
A. Red Cross and Iron Cross
Axel Munthe was author of “The Story of San Michele”, his
postwar retreat on the
*Munthe G,
Uexkull G. (trans.M Munthe & Lord Sudley). The story of Axel Munthe.
New York, E.P Dutton & Co, 1953.
Axel Munthe served
with the Red Cross at the front during World War I, and was author of Red Cross and Iron
Cross (q.v.). Gustaf
Munthe was his son.)
*“My
Sergeant”.
The cover introduction begins “”A
book with a distinctly French flavor which glides lightly and daringly over the
little love adventures of an ingenuous American doughboy while convalescing in
a
*Nasmith
GG. On the fringe of the great fight
N.D.M. Two
Years After. Or Twelve Months of
Armageddon. Some reminiscences of a
Temporary Regimental
Sawbones 1915-1916
Printed for private circulation
only, 1918
*O Br
*Orcutt PD.
White road of mystery: the note‑book
of an American ambulancier
Osburn
AC. Unwilling passenger
Arthur
Osburn was a regular RAMC officer with the 4th Dragoon Guards, 2nd
Cavalry Brigade, and later on the staff of the 20th (Light) Division
Norec A. Miss Cavell, Heroine et
Martyre
Paris, Rouff (Coll. Patrie #3), 1917
O’Rorke BG. In the Hands of the Enemy: being the
experiences of a prisoner of war
O’Rorke was chaplain of the 4th
Field Ambulance, captured with the wounded of the Coldstream Guards at
Landrecies and held at Torgau, Burg and Magdebrug. He was repatriated in 1915
*“The
Padre”. Fifty Thousand Miles on a
Hospital Ship.
Experiences of a hospital ship chaplain in the Mediterranean
*Paget
S. Sir Victor Horsley
Biography of Sir Victor Horsley, who was a consultant to the
Expeditionary Force in
Pengelly
E. Nursing in peace and war.
Chiefly nursing in the First World War
with diary extracts.
Perret J. La mort
d'un prêtre-soldat, L'Abbé Joseph Cottancin (1881-1916), professeur de
rhétorique à l'Institution Victor de Laprade à Montbuison, brancardier
divisionnaire, blessé mortellement au fort de Tavannes le 12 juin 1916
Montbuison (France), Eleuthère
Brassart, 1917
*Pierrelle C. Pour
l’âme des soldats. Lettres à un filleul de Guerre. Aux infirmières de France et
à leurs blessés
Paris & Lyon, Beauchesnes et
Nouvellet, 1917
Our copy bears an autograph signature
*Platoon Commander (pseud). Hospital days
A
series of sketches, some published in the “
*Plenz PG. Kriegsbriefe eines Feldarztes der Armee Hindenburg
(War letters from a field doctor in Hindenburg’s army)
Gotha, 1916
Poisot M. Mon
journal de guerre: 1914-1918
Beaune 1985
WW1 personal narrative
of a French doctor. Facsimile of the manuscript.
*Pound R. Gillies:
Surgeon Extraordinary.
The biography of Sir Harold Gillies, chief surgeon at the
Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup, and regarded as the father of 20th Century plastic
surgery
Prentice
S. Padre: A Red Cross Chaplain
*Ramsay J
(Capt RAMC). The Outside Edge of
The author was attached to the
*Ray AC
(ed) “R.A.L.” Letters of a Canad
R.A.L. saw service at No 3 Canad
*Reckitt
HJ. V.R.76, a French military hospital
London,
Heinemann, 1921
*Rémi H. Hommes
sans visage.
Lausaunne, SPES, 1942
In this short paperback Henriette Rémi describes her experiences
as a nursing assistant at an unnamed French hospital for facial injuries. The descriptions of the torment endured by
the injured as they face rejection by their loved ones is harrowing in the
extreme
*Riemann H.
Schwester der Vierten Armee. Ein Kriegstagebuch. (Sister in the Fourth Army: a
diary)
Berlin, Karl Vogels Verlag, 1930
Rice
PS. An American crusader at
Princeton,
(previously published as: An
ambulance driver in
*Robinson,
W J. My fourteen months at the front: an
American's baptism of fire
Roger N.. Carnets
d’une infirmière
Paris, Attinger, 1916
*Rorie
D. A Medico's Luck in the War.
Served with the 51st (
Helen
Fairchild served as a nurse in a CCS before assisting Dr Harte, Director of
*Roussel-Lepine J.
Une Ambulance de Gare. Croquis des premiers jours de guerre
Paris, Plon, 1916
Description
of a hospital in the Ile de France
*
Paul, 1939
Recollections from
Ryder
R. Edith Cavell
*St Clair W
(ed St Clair J). The Road to St Julien
Edited
letters of a stretcher-bearer covering the entire war
*Sandes
F. The Autobiography of a Woman
Soldier. A brief record of adventure
with the Serb
*Schwander M. Dans
la Tourmente. Avec les Belges pendant la Guerre mondiale (septembre 1914 -
décembre 1915)
Paris-Neuchatel, ca. 1919
The author was a nurse, member of the "
*Sergeant
ES. Shadow‑shapes, the journal of
a wounded woman, October 1918‑May 1919
Shield
H. War Diary, 12 August-25 October,
1914.
Privately printed, 1915
A dramatic account of the retreat from
*Shiveley
GJ (ed). Record of the S.S.U.585 Yale
ambulance unit with the French
Army 1917‑1919
*Sinclair
M. A journal of impressions: record of
experiences with a field ambulance in the autumn of 1914.
*Smith
LN. Four Years out of Life
Nursing experiences on the Western Front, illustrated by the
Author’s own atmospheric woodcuts
Soulacroix T. Notes de Guerre et d'Ambulance
Paris, Lethielleux, 1916
*Souttar
HS. A Surgeon in
Experiences with the Belg
*Sparrow G,
Macbean Ross JN. On Four Fronts with the
Royal Naval Division
The
Foreword to this account of the RND by two Divisional surgeons, written by
Surgeon-General Sir James Porter, calls this “an absorbing and realistic
narrative of stirring times”. The
authors self-deprecatingly call it “these rambling notes”. It is part description of events from
*Speakman
MAV. Memories. Experiences of American hospital service in
Written by the wife of Dr William Speakman, a dental surgeon
who served with the AEF following volunteer service in
*Spearing
EM. From
Account of nursing in Cambridge
(the author was a fellow of Newnham College, and the draft of one of her books
perished at the printers in Louvain when that town was overrun by the Germans)
and in France. She numbered the Scots as
her favourite patients, followed by Londoners
*Spiegl P
(ed). Elsie Fenwick in
Elsie Fenwick served with the Red Cross at La Panne,
beginning as a probationer and finishing as head sister on a surgical ward of
80 beds
*“Staff
Nurse”. “Scottie” and some others.
Portraits of patients
*Stephenson
W. A Memoir of the Rev. W.H. Norman M.A.
privately printed, n.d.
A
sergeant in the RAMC, Norman had served in
*
Account by the financial editor of a
*
Follow-up to “At the Front”
Stimson
JC. Finding themselves: the letters of
an American Army Chief Nurse in a
*Stobart MA. The Flaming Sword in
Hodder & Stoughton, 1916
Stull Holt
W. The Great War at Home and Abroad: the
World War 1 diaries and letters of W. Stull Holt
NY,
*Sturzenegger
(G.) La Serbie en guerre, 1914-1916.
episodes vecus et illustrés de 120 photographes par une suissesse
allemande au service de la Croix-Rouge,
Neuchâtel, Delachaux &
Niestlé, 1916
Unusually well illustrated
“Sullivan RN. "Somewhere in
Sutton-Pickhard
MF.
Maud
Sutton-Pickhard was a Red Cross nurse with British troops
*Swayne
ML. In
Tayler
H. A Scottish Nurse at work. Being a
record of what one semi-trained nurse has be privileged to see and do during
four and a half years of war
*Tennent RJ. Red Herrings of 1918.
Speldhurst,
1980
Based on the letters to her parents from Josephine
Tennant, née Pennell, a female ambulance driver serving with the British Red
Cross. As a member of the BRCS St Omer
Convoy she was awarded the Military Medal for her work in a night air raid on
the town
Thompson
B. Four months in
*de
T’Serclaes, Baroness.
Autobiography detailing front line nursing in
Teichman
O. Diary of a Yeomanry M.O.,
Thans
H. Mijn Oorlog (My War)
Mechelen
(
Memoirs of the author, a Flemish priest, who was sent,
during World War I to the 'Centre d'Instruction Brancardiers Infirmiers' at
Anvours (France) and then served at the Cabour front-hospital in Adinkerke (on
the Belg
*Thayer WR
et al. The Edith Cavell Nurse from
*Thomson, Major-Médecin
Louis-L. La retraite de
Serbie (octobre-décembre 1915) ; Mémoires et récits de guerre
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1916
It is sad to find such a book for
sale uncut
*Thurston
V. Field Hospital and Flying
Column. Being the Journal of a Nursing
Sister in
Violetta Thurston was in Brussels when the German forces
arrived and continued nursing duties until sent across Germany to Denmark,
thence to Poland and Russia, where she was slightly wounded by a German bomb.
*Thurston
V. The Hounds of War Unleashed. A Nurse’s account of life on the Eastern
Front during the 1914-1918 war.
*Tilton, M.
The Grey Battalion.
The experiences of an
Austral
*Toland
ED. The aftermath of battle: with the
Red Cross in
Posted to the hospital established in the Majestic Hotel,
*Tubby
AH. A Consulting Surgeon in the
The Author served in the
*Ussher
CD, Knapp GH. An American Physic
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company,
1917.
Reprint
version by JC & AL Fawcett, 1990
Van Bergen L. Zacht en eervol, Lijden en sterven in een
Grote Oorlog. (Gentle and honourful, suffering and dying in the Great War)
Den
Haag & Antwerpen, Standaard
Uitgeverij, 1999
van Bevervoorde - van Rappard
AL. Souvenirs et
impressions d'une infirmière de pays neutre en France pendant les années de
guerre 1916 et 1917.
Memoirs of a member of the Dutch nobility, working for the French Red
Cross.
Van Den Steen (Comtesse). Mon Journal d’Infirmière
aout-novembre 1914.
Bruxelles, Office de Publicité, 1937
War diary of a leading nurse on the
Belg
van Tienhoven A.
Avec les Serbes, 1914-16. Journal
de guerre d'un chirurgien
1919
Various authors.
Livre Jubilaire publié en l'honneur du Docteur Paul Derache, Lieutenant
Genéral Medécin
Bruxelles,
1933
Paul Derache was, with Antoine Depage,
the most famous Belg
*Viv
Hodder & Stoughton (Daily
Telegraph War Books), 1914
*Voigt
FA. Combed Out.
Contains a graphic account of orderly work in a CCS
*Voivenel P. (ed Canini G). A Verdun avec la 67 DR
Nancy,
Presses Universitares de Nancy, 1991
*
The story of a mounted Brigade Field Ambulance with Gen.
Botha in 1915.
*Ward
H. Mr Poilu. Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French
Herbert Ward left school at 16 and after further education in the
*Watkins
OS. With French in
The author accompanied the 14th Field Ambulance from
mobilisation in August 1914 to
*Watson F.
The Life of Sir Robert Jones.
Baltimore, William Wood & Co,
1934.
Sir Robert Jones (1857-1933) was a pioneer in surgery and
orthopaedics. There is much material on his work with disabled soldiers in
World War I.
*Weihmann
M. In allen Sätteln. Reiterbuch eines
deutschen Artzes (On all saddles. Riding book of a German doctor)
The author rode with artillery which
fought against T. E. Lawrence.
Weiss L. Memoires
d'une Europeenne Petite Fille du Siècle 1893-1919
Paris, Albin Michel, 1978
First of six volumes of memoirs of
one of the women of this century who were the most involved in the political
and artistic history of
*Wenzel M,
Cornish J. Auntie Mabel’s War. An account of her part in the Hostilities of
1914-18
The story of Mabel Jeffery, who served as a nurse in
Northern France and the Balkans with the Scottish Women’s Hospital
*Werner
MR. “Orderly!”
Life in a
Westerdale
TLB. Under the Red Cross flag
*Westmann
S. Surgeon with the Kaiser’s Army
Westmann settled in England, but this book relates his
experiences in the German front line
*Whalen
RW. Bitter Wounds:
German Victims of the Great War, 1914-1939
A thorough study of German wounded ,
their rehabilitation and support services between the wars. It is a sad tale; “organised benevolence
failed partly because it was torpedoed by
Wight
to May 25, 1919
*Wignall E
(ed Harrison C). Diary and notes from
the Great War 1914-1918
Privately compiled, 1999
Transcript
of the diaries of QMS Edgar Wignall, 51st Field Ambulance
*Wilder
A. Armageddon Revisited.
New Haven & London,
Amos Wilder’s initial experience of the war was as an
ambulance driver on the Western Front and in Macedonia
*Wilson-Simmie
K. Lights Out! The Memoir of Nursing Sister Kate Wilson,
Canad
One
of two CAMC nursing memoirs, it covers the Canad
*Wilson
RM. Doctor's Progress
Autobiography of a doctor turned journalist.
*Winant C.
A Soldier's Manuscript.
Cornelius Winant served as an ambulance driver in
*
Writer and war correspondent, Young was moved by the plight
of Ypres and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit, working both in Ypres and on
the Ital
*Wolfrom M
(Marthe Amalbert). Geneviève Hennet de
Goutel
Paris, Gabriel Beauchene, 1926
Geneviève Hennet de Goutel was a
nurse on several battle fronts during WWI.
She died following a febrile illness in
*Yapp CB
(ed). Nos chers
blessés. Une infirmière dans la Grande
Guerre
Sain-Cyr-sur
Loire, Alan Sutton, 2002
Taken from the journal of Claudine Bourcier, who nursed at
*Young
FB. Marching on Tanga (With General
Smuts in
Francis
Brett Young was medical officer to the 2nd Rhodes
*Young
J. With the 52nd (Lowland) Division in
Three Continents.
Memoir by the commanding officer of the 1/3rd Lowland Field
Ambulance, originally published as a series of articles in the Edinburgh
Medical Review and covering service at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine
*Zenna
Smith H. “Not so Quiet…”. Stepdaughters
of War
4.
Services, Unit records or histories
*Allison
RS. The Surgeon Probationers
Story
of the rapidly trained group of medical assistants, many of them medical
students, recruited into the Royal Navy to make up medical numbers. Contains a reproduction of a handbook
produced for them by Staff Surgeon Willan
*Adami, JG.
War Story of the Canad
Toronto, Musson Book Company Ltd.,
c. 1918.
*Alper H
(ed). A History of Queen Mary’s
Privately printed,
Chapters
1 & 2 describe the work of the hospital in WW1 and after; it was the main
hospital for men who had lost limbs, and the Queen's Hospital Sidcup was
modelled on it, with its residual work (and resources) being moved there in
1925. After WW2 Harold Gillies developed
plastic surgical work at Roehampton
*American
Field Service Archives of WW1 (Bibliography and Index in World History, No 16)
American Field Service Archives and Museum, Ld. Geller 1989
*
Angetter
CD. Dem Tod geweiht und doch gerettet
Die Sanitäts versorgung am Isonzo und in dem Dolomiten 1915-18. (Doomed to die,
yet saved: Medical care on the Isonzo river and in the Dolomites)
Medical treatment on the Ital
*Anon. 5th London Field Ambulance (47th
(
A small commemorative volume
containing a brief summary of the Unit’s history prior to the war, and summary
of movements during it. The Unit was
based in
*Anon. A
History of No.7 (Queen's)
Queen's University, 1917
*Anon. Air Service Medical. Report of the War Department, Air Service,
Division of Military Aeronautics,
Comprehensive
manual covering medical examination for service and medical problems
Anon
(British Red Cross Society). Appeal and case for members of the nursing staff
of the
Anon. British Red Cross and Order of
A mighty reference book listing men by regiment;
the reprint includes the Austral
Anon. A Record of the 362nd Field Hospital Company,
316th Sanitary Train, 91st Division,
n.p, c.1919.
Anon. A record of the Third East Angl
Privately printed, n.d
*Anon. A Train Errant. Being the experiences of a Voluntary Unit in
Hertford, Simson & Co, 1919
A record of No 16 Ambulance Train, presented to the British
Red Cross by the
*Anon. An illustrated Record of Red Cross Work in
the East of Scotland
A “souvenir” book comprising an alphabetical list of Red
Cross Hospitals, listing personnel, numbers of patients admitted and dates of
opening. Illustrated with numerous
photographs of buildings (many of which are stately homes), facilities,
staff and patients
*Anon. British Red Cross Society: Reports on
Voluntary Aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and
abroad and to British Prisoners of War, 1914-1919.
*Anon. De Nederlandsche Ambulance in Rusland (The
Dutch Ambulance Service in
Illustrated pamphlet of 12 pp describing the work of Dutch
medical services in Russia
*Anon. Diary of Section VIII, American Ambulance
Field Service
The volunteer ambulance drivers of Section 8 worked on the
Western Front with the 6th Army Corps of the 12th Division of the 4th Army
Anon. Diary of the Eleventh: Being a Record of the
XIth Canad
N.p., n.d.
A history of a battalion in World War I based on the
personal accounts of its members as recorded before their return to
Anon. Die Deutschen Kriegsgaeste der Schweiz. Ein
Gedenkblatt an die Hospitalisierung deutscher Kriegs- und Zivilgefangener (The
German War guests of
München,
Piper, 1917
*Anon.
With
numerous illustrations of the various (and varying) facilities, casualty
statistics and lists of serving personnel
*Anon. Friends of
A racy history, profusely illustrated
Anon. History of
A
lavish book, with many illustrations, about this unit which was raised in
Minneapolis and operated at Allerey, Saone et Loire
*Anon. History of the
A
limited edition describing the establishment and movements of the hospital,
which took over the BEF’s
*Anon. History of United States Army Base Hospital
No. 20 organized at the
A
detailed history of the organisation and work of the Hospital, based at Chatel
Guyon near Clermont-Ferrand
Anon. History of US
Paris, Fortin Nevers, n.d
A 24 page book which contains a
complete unit personnel roster including transfers, Red Cross workers, civil
Anon. Hôpital Auxiliaire 14. Pour les blessés de la guerre de 1914
n.p., October 1914
The
Anon. Hospital
Auxilaire, Arc en Barrois, Haute Marne, France 1915
Privately Published 1915
Anon. Les Hospices Civils de Nancy pendant la
Guerre
Nancy, Rigot, 1921
Anon. Livre d'or.
Aux médecins morts pour la patrie (1914-1918)
Paris, Syndicat des Editeurs, no date
(ca. 1920)
Anon. L'Union des colonies françaises en France en
faveur des victimes de la guerre. son oeuvre, mai 1916 -decembre 1918
(
Presentation of the important work of
this association, its aim being re-education of people who were mutilated
during WW1.
Anon. Mercy-workers of the War: an interview with
the Hon. Arthur Stanley, CB, MP, Chairman of the British Red Cross Society.
*
A scarce booklet including dozens of photographic
illustrations. It includes a memorial page to Edward
Anon. Nos Blessés. Les trains sanitaires
Paris, Etudes militaries Delandre (Coll. Les Cahiers de
la Guerre #19), n.d. (during WW1)
32pp pamphlet with
illustrations
*Anon. Reports by the Joint War Committee and the
Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of
Anon. Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer im
Weltkriege 1914-1918
In
3 volumes: I: Gliederung des Herressanitätswesens; II: Der Sanitätsdienst im
Gefechts- und Schlactenverlauf; III: Die Krankenbewegung bei den Deutscher Heer
Anon. Science et Devouement.
Le Service de Santé. La Croix-Rouge. Les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et
d'après-guerre.
Paris, Aristide Quillet, 1918
Published with collaboration of numerous military doctors,
professors, engineers, etc...
Anon. Scottish Women’s Hospitals. The call of our allies and the response of
the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for foreign service, being record of work
accomplished by the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in France and Serbia
*Anon. Souvenir of
Photo Press, 1921
A specially prepared book of
*Anon. Tales of a Field Ambulance, 1914-1918, told
by the Personnel. Printed for private circulation.
History of the 2/4th London Field Ambulance during World War
I. Contains information on their training in England, and their service in
France, Slavonic and Katherine, and Egypt and Palestine
* Anon
(American Red Cross). The American Red Cross during the War: a statement of finances
and
accomplishments July 1, 1917 to Feb. 28, 1919.
*Anon. The Red Cross in Gloucestershire during the
War: An Account of the Voluntary Aid Work carried out in Gloucestershire from
October 1914 to March 31 1919.
Red Cross n.d. (1919)
Anon. The
story of the 2/1st Wessex Field Ambulance, 1914-1919
King's
*Anon. The War on Hospital Ships, from the
Narratives of Eye-witnesses.
The Germans conducted unrestricted submarine warfare against
Allied hospital ships in
Anon
(British Red Cross Society). The work of V,A.D. London 1 during the War
Anon.
500 photographs, 70 drawings, & 13 articles by members
of base hospital no.4,
*Anon. Vor 20 Jahren. Deutsches Artzttum in Weltkrieg. Erlebnisse und Berichte. Herausgegeben von
der Schriftleitung der Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift
*Anon. With the 1st/1st
Account of this unit in
*Atkinson
A. 2/3rd City of London Field
Ambulance.
Based
on a war diary written by Pte A L Ellis of ‘C’ Section
*Austin R, Austin S. The Body Snatchers - the History of the 3rd
Austral
McCrae (
Illustrated history covering the
raising of the unit in Australia, training in Egypt, service at Anzac and
Gallipoli, followed by service on the Western Front to war's end.
*Bainbridge
WS. United States Naval Medical Bulletin, special number: Report on Medical and
Surgical Developments of the War.
This World War I report covers treatment of war wounds by
the Allies, treatment of war wounds by the Germans, developments in war surgery
(including anaesthesia, fractures, amputations, and plastic and oral surgery),
trench fever, military hospitals and convalescent camps, and functional and
vocational re-education for the disabled, among other topics. The work of the Queen’s Hospital is noted,
and one of the plates illustrates a Sidcup soldier
*Bakewell
CM. The story of the American Red Cross
in
Among
the personnel listed in Ambulance Section IV is Hemingway, Ernest M
*Barker
HG. The Red Cross in
*Barker
M. Nightingales in the Mud. The Digger Sisters of the Great War 1914-1918
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1989
A study of Austral
*Barrett
JW. A vision of the possible: what the
Royal Army Medical Corps might become
Based on his experience in the
*Barrett
PE, Deane JW. The Austral
*Bazot M
(Ed). Le
Val-de-Grâce. Deux siècles de médecine militaire
(France), Hervas, 1993
Illustrated history of the
Val-de-Grâce Hospital in Paris
*Beggs ST
(Capt). Guide to Promotion for
non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Comprising instructions in drill, equipment, signalling,
record keeping and hospital duties
*
Novelised
account; he Preface states “The pill of fact herein is but thinly coated with
the sugar of fiction…”
*Berry J,
The
*Bicknell
EP. With the Red Cross in
Covers the entire war on all fronts from the perspective of
a former National Director of the American Red Cross
*Billington
MF. The Red Cross in war: woman's part
in the relief of suffering
Billington
MF. The roll‑call of serving
women. A Record of Woman's Work for
Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War
*Binneveld
H (trans O’Kane J). From Shellshock to
Combat Stress. A Comparative History of
Military Psychiatry
With
considerable reference to WW1 experience, this book covers the development of
psychiatry for military personnel, and the ongoing consequences of battlefield
psychological injury
*Blaessinger E. Quelques
grandes figures de la chirurgie, de la médecine et de la pharmacie militaries
Paris, Librairie Scientifique et
Technique Blanchard, 1952
Short biographies of a number of
important figures in French military medicine from the 18th to the
mid 20th century. Perhaps the
best known from the WW1 era are Edmond Delorme and Jean Vincent
*Blair
JSG. Centenary History of the Royal Army
Medical Corps, 1898-1998
Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press,
1998
Chapters 5-7 cover the RAMC in the Great War
*
*Bowser,
Thekla, F.J.I. The Story of British
V.A.D. Work in the Great War.
A curiously organized but enthusiastic look at the work of
VADs both at home and abroad.
+Breitner B
(ed).Ärtzte und ihre Helfer im Weltkriege 1914-1918 (Doctors and their helpers
during the World
War 1914-1918)
Detailed reports by a number of specialists on various
medical and surgical aspects. Rather
chatty!
Brereton
FS. The Great War and the RAMC
British Red
Cross Society. The Red Cross in
Gloucestershire during the war
*Bruce HA.
Politics and the C.A.M.C.
The Canad
*Busse H.
Soldaten ohne Waffen. Zur Geschichte des Sanitätswesens.
Berg-am-See, Vorwickel-Verlag, 1990
History of the German
military medical services.
Cambassèdès H.
L'ambulance Alpine
(France), E. Le François, n.d.
*Cameron
K. History of No 1
Chaix A. Sanglier-Lamarck L.-H.. L'ambulance de la division combinée au cours
de la guerre Germano-Austro-Bulgaro-Serbe de 1915
Paris, Fournier, 1916
Chambers
RW, Batho EC, Parker BN (eds). Records
of those members of University College London and
*Chapin
WAR. The Lost Legion: The story of the fifteen hundred American doctors who
served with the B.E.F. in the Great War
Springfield MA, Loring-Axtell
Company,. 1926.
Chase HL .
The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: an outline of the 4½ years service at home
and abroad, 1914‑1918
*Chatfield,
Josiah C., et al., eds. Iodine and Gasoline: a history of the 117th Sanitary
Train.
Private publication, c.1920.
The 117th Sanitary Train ("Rainbow's Sanitary
Train") evacuated 22,260 patients
from the firing line during action in World War I.
*Clymer
G (ed.) The history of U.S. Army Base Hospital
No. 6 and its part in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918.
Includes rosters, chronological outline of orders and
events, statistical data of patients cared for by the unit, and a series of special
articles by various members of the unit. These articles include articles by the
nurses, the chaplain, and the x-ray department, as well as an account of Red
Cross work
Colin PPJ. Quatre
mois de campagne en 1914. Etat sanitaire d'un Bataillon
(France), Destout Ainé, n.d.
*Collins
J. Dr Brighton’s Ind
Brighton,
After a hospital ship fire at Southampton a number of
buildings in
*Creswick
P, Pond GS, Ashton PH.
History of the establishment of Red Cross hospitals in the
county
*Crofton
E. The Women of Royaumont. A Scottish Women’s Hospital on the Western Front
Tuckwell Press,
1997
Croze A, Cigalier D.
Les hospices civils de Lyon de 1900 a 1925. Leur oeuvre pendant la
guerre
Lyon, Ed. du Fleuve, 1927
*D'Abernon HV. Red Cross and
Viscountess D’Abernon gave anaesthetics at several Red Cross
Hospitals. Her husband was appointed
Ambassador to
*Davison
HP. The American Red Cross in the Great
War
*Delaporte
S. Les Gueules
Cassées. Les blessés de la face de la Grande
Guerre
Paris, Noêsis 1996
An account of the French experience of facial injury.
*De Navarro
A. The Scottish Women’s Hospital at the
Abbey of Royaumont
*Dillon KJ and others. Some Reminiscences of S.K.N.C. War Work,
1914-1918; being some account of the War
Experiences of members of the South Kensington Nurses’ Co-operation
Printed
for private circulation, 1919
The nurses of the Unit are listed; some have
provided short accounts of their experience
Dorland J. L'Hôtel
des Invalides de Louis XIV à nos jours : son service de santé, son hôpital, ses
pensionnaires
Paris, Perrin & Perrin 1996
Complete history of
the military hospital " Les Invalides " in
*Dreux
A. Nos Soldats Aveugles
(France), Association Valentin Haüy pour le bien des
aveuglés, 1915
Text on rehabilitation strategies for war-blinded
soldiers, with appendices describing a series of case histories
*Drew
HTB (ed). The War Effort of
Evrard E,
Mathieu J et al. Asklepios onder de wapens. 500 Jaar
militaire geneeskunde in Belgie
The History of Medical
Military Services in Belgium since the Middle Ages and including WW1
*Favre E.
L’Internement en Suisse des Prisonniers de guerre maladies ou blessés
A
report commissioned by the Swiss Army medical Service
Fenn
CR. Middlesex to wit, being a brief
record of the work performed at the
Auxiliary Military Hospitals in
Middlesex during the war, 1914‑1918
*Fetherstonehaugh
RC. No 3 Canad
Montreal, Gazette Printing Co, 1928
*
*Fleming
JA. The last Voyage of HM Hospital Ship
‘Britannic’
John Fleming was a chaplain aboard
this sister ship of the “Titanic”, which was either torpedoed or hit a mine in the
Folgeambe
A. The
Auckland, 1916
*Fouché N. Le
mouvement perpétuel: histoire de l'Hôpital américain de Paris des origines à
nos jours
History of the
*Fowler
Great War (ed). The history of the First
London (City of
(Printed) Burnetts Ltd,
An
unusual if not unique record of the work of a Sanitary unit. One might expect all the work to revolve
around digging latrines, but the work included much practical research on
cleanliness and the avoidance of cross-infection
*Francis
AEF. History of the 2/3rd East
Lancashire Field Ambulance.
Written in humorous vein
Gaines
RL. Helping
Geisinger
JF. History of the
*Geller
LD. The American Field Service Archives
of World War I, 1914-1917
An excellent summary of the holdings of the Archives,
illustrated with numerous photographs and with a commentary on many of the
items in the collection. The AFS
provided the
Georges
E. Histoire de l'hôpital militaire de
Nancy
(France), Imprimerie Nationale, 1938
le Goaer C-L. Role
de la Marine dans l’evacuation des blessés et des maladies
France, A Destout, n.d.
*Gordon
J & J. The Luck of Thirteen; through
Jan Gordon was Engineer to the Serb
*Grandmaison
G de. La Croix-Rouge
français; la societé de secours aux blessés militaries pendant la guerre
Paris, Blond et Gay, 1921
Short history of the organisation
and work of the Red Cross in
*Gunn JN,
Dutton EE. Historical Records of No 8
Canad
*Haller JS
Jr. Farmcarts to Fords. A history of the Military Ambulance,
1790-1925
*
Hawthorn,
Patrick
Harrison S.
Souvenir of the
*Hansen
A. Gentlemen Volunteers. The Story of
the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War August 1914-September
1918
Hay
I. One hundred years of army nursing: the story of the British army nursing
services from the time of