Download or read book Diary of a Nurse in the Battle of Arnhem written by Hendrika van der Vlist and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Battle of Arnhem, Hotel Schoonoord in Oosterbeek, the parental home of primary school teacher Hendrika (Riek) van der Vlist, finds itself in the front line. The British take over the hotel as a field hospital. Together with other volunteers Riek helps hundreds of wounded British, Polish and German soldiers. Even when Schoonoord falls into German hands she continues to care for the wounded.00When the Airbornes are transported from Schoonoord by the Germans, Hendrika goes with them to keep helping as nurse and interpreter. In the Willem III barracks in Apeldoorn she continues her work until the SS oust the Dutch nurses from there.00In her diary Hendrika van der Vlist provides a compelling and moving account of the turbulent events of September 1944: the shootings, the fear felt by the wounded and the volunteers, the deaths, the lack of water and food, but also the friendships in those days, including ones between the Allied and German soldiers.00Riek spends the subsequent months as a war refugee, first of all in Apeldoorn and later reunited with her parents in Ede. She tells of the bombardments and raids, the hunger and the need to beg for food, the news that Schoonoord has been burnt down and the lengthy wait for liberation.00Once the Netherlands as a whole is at last free again, she returns to Oosterbeek in order to help with the restoration activities.00After the War Hendrika van der Vlist (1915-1994) resumed her career as a teacher. Hendrika continued to share her experiences during the war. In the same way that she nursed all the soldiers, she drew no distinction between friend and foe and spoke of reconciliation rather than hate.
Download or read book A Very Private Diary written by Mary Morris and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Mulry was eighteen years old when she arrived in London from Ireland to begin training as a nurse. The year was 1939. She had hoped for an adventure and a new start; she could not have predicted what the next seven years would bring. In this extraordinary diary Mary recorded in intimate detail her experiences as a nurse on the Home Front and later working on the frontline in Europe. In London, she nursed critically ill children during bombing raids and narrowly escaped with her life in one the worst nights of the Blitz. In Normandy, arriving on the heels of the D-Day invasion, she tended to Allied soldiers and German prisoners of war. In war-torn Belgium, she witnessed harrowing casualties from the Battle of Arnhem. Yet romance, glamour and adventure are never far away for Mary, even if her relationships often had to be cut short. 'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time, ' she writes. Nurses were not allowed to keep diaries on active service, but Mary - fortunately for us - was not one for following rules. Her rebellious spirit, sharp wit and irrepressible personality shine through the pages of her 'very private diary', published now for the first time.
Download or read book A Very Private Diary written by Mary Morris and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1939: Mary Mulry was eighteen years old when she arrived in London from Ireland to begin training as a nurse. She had hoped for an adventure and a new start; she could not have predicted what the next seven years would bring. In this extraordinary diary Mary recorded in intimate detail her experiences as a nurse on the Home Front and later working on the frontline in Europe. In Normandy, she tended to Allied soldiers and German prisoners of war. In war-torn Belgium, she witnessed harrowing casualties from the Battle of Arnhem . Yet, romance, glamour and adventure were never far away for Mary.
Download or read book Dorothea s War written by Dorothea Crewdson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE. In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a diary. 'Who knows how long we shall really be out here? Seems a good chance from all reports of the campaigns being ended before winter but all is uncertain.' Dorothea would go on to witness and record some of the worst tragedy of the First World War at first hand, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout. The pages of her diaries sparkle with warmth and humour as she describes the day-to-day realities and frustrations of nursing near the frontline of the battlefields, or the pleasure of a beautiful sunset, or a trip 'joy-riding' in the French countryside on one of her precious days off. One day she might be gossiping about her fellow nurses, or confessing to writing her diary while on shift on the ward, or illustrating the scene of the tents collapsing around them on a windy night in one of her vivid sketches. In another entry she describes picking shells out of the beds on the ward after a terrifying air raid (winning a medal for her bravery in the process). Nearly a hundred years on, what shines out above all from the pages of these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman, whose story is made all the more poignant by her tragically premature death at the end of the war just before she was due to return home.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary written by M. E. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Nurse at the Front written by Ruth Cowen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly, Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the 'war to end wars', including the first use of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres, but she also records what life was like for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary written by A. World War 1. Nurse and published by Diggory Press Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British Nurse's experiences working on the Belgian Front during the First World War
Download or read book Sister The War Diary of a Nurse written by Helen Dore Boylston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse is Helen Boylston's famous account of life on the front-lines as a US Army nurse stationed in France during World War I. Boylston vividly recounts the long, grueling hours in surgery, the devastating German air-raids, the determination of the soldiers and her unbounded dedication to her patients. Her war diary is an important historical document, offering rare insight into early international combat operations featuring American medical personnel.
Download or read book A Nurse s War A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone ‘Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.’ Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary written by World War I. Nurse and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Boer War Nurse written by Alice Bron and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nurse for Boer and British during the Boer War The author of this book, a young Belgian woman, was a vocational nurse from an early age. As a child she had assisted in caring for the wounded of the Franco-Prussian War. Serving as a nurse in a private hospital she answered the call for trained medical help by joining the staff of an ambulance sent out to South Africa by the Dutch and Belgian Red Cross. She worked in the war zone especially caring for Boer wounded and sick until the summer of 1900 when she was recalled to Europe upon the sudden death of her husband. After quickly settling her affairs she felt compelled once again to return to Africa, on this occasion volunteering to serve as a Nursing Sister caring primarily for British sick and wounded. This remarkable woman tells her story across time providing the reader with a vivid view of her humanitarian work in two opposing camps and on both sides of the lines, thus giving the modern reader a possibly impartial but inside view of the protagonists of the Boer War.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital written by Anon and published by Exposure Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing in graphic detail the horrors of World War One, this is a true account of one woman's experiences as a nurse, where she was stationed near the frontline in Belgium.
Download or read book A Nurse s War written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by Harpernorth. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true story of one young nurse's heroism, heartache and happiness in wartime. The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone. This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain's 'Greatest Generation' brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire. In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen's days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944. She muses on being working class, wartime austerity, and her anxiety about examinations. Here too are dances, Americans and a POW boyfriend in Germany. Kathleen's observations are witty, wry and astute - but above all relatable, even today. Poignant and engrossing, Kathleen Johnstone's tale of trauma, romance and friendship will leave a lasting impression.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary Sketches From A Belgian Field Hospital Illustrated Edition written by Anon. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 33 photos of the author’s comrades, adventures and hospitals. When war broke out in 1914, it was imagined in Britain that the war with Germany would be short and the need for nursing staff over in France would be low as there should be very few casualties. The author, a trained nurse from the Northern Midlands in England, decided that she would volunteer her services immediately, but was rebuffed by the Red Cross and St John’s Ambulance on the basis that they had almost one nurse for every soldier in the field. Not to be deterred, she responded to an advert which read: “Ten nurses wanted at once for Antwerp; must be voluntary.” And off to Belgium she went in August 1914. It was to be in Belgium that so many of these rosy presumptions that were held by many were shattered early in the autumn of 1914, as the German steamroller thumped into the Allied forces. In its wake the huge numbers of wounded flooded into the hospitals in Belgium where our author was inundated with work. As the Germans moved forward, she and her fellow hospital staff were moved backward from Antwerp, where she was briefly caught up in the siege, escaping to Ghent, Bruges, Ostend and thence to France. She tended to the wounded amidst the carnage of war almost unceasingly until a year later when she left France for England in October 1915.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary Scholar s Choice Edition written by World War I Nurse and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A War Nurse s Diary written by World War I Nurse and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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