This Intrepid Band

This is another extract from 'Reminiscent Sketches,' and as it's quite long I've divided it into two parts - reading long ac...

'Canaries' is the title of this often seen image, but I've never been sure whether the canaries were carried on ambulance trains...

T his is the second part of the account of Ambulance Train life - this one during the later years of the war, when things had become a littl...

This is the first extract from 'Reminiscent Sketches' and is a brief, but vivid account of life on one of the early ambulance trains...

About a year ago, I managed to get hold of a copy of a book called 'Reminiscent Sketches, 1914 to 1919', published by John Bale, Son...

A recent comment on my previous post about Heilly Station Cemetery led me to return there for a moment. In the past, I've done some res...

When I wrote last month about 'The Difference Between' the various grades of nurse, I put: The grade of 'Assistant Nurse' be...