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 Brusssels has been most helpful in supplying continental titles. Recently he has offered the Archives a large selection of doctoral theses in French, many from the same collection. As these are not strictly books (but neither are they journals) I have included them as a separate section.
In early 2002 I was contacted by Gary Mitchell of Rochester, NY, who has made a special study (and collection) of items relating to medical services from the USA. Rather than paste them into the main bibliography I have kept the entire section separate and there is therefore some duplication. A few of the entries would not qualify under my ground rules for inclusion, but are sufficiently comprehensive or important to be retained. Many have no listed author and, as researchers may well wish to search for units by number, I have retained Gary’s broad arrangement. The comments in this section are his.
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
3. Accounts by, or biographies of, doctors,
nurses, ambulancemen and others involved in the care of the wounded soldier
4. Unit records or histories
5. Medical and nursing textbooks; texts on
management & rehabilitation of disability
6. General books
7. Journals of hospitals and other units
8. Poetry and artistic representations of
injury
9. Bibliographies, catalogues, theses etc
10. Fiction
11. French theses
12. Russian material
1. Frognal and its origins
Dr Harris' History of Kent, 1719
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
*E.Hasted. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
W.Bristow, Canterbury, 1798
The standard historical survey of Kent, well illustrated
with plates and a series of maps of the county hundreds. Two editions were published; the first,
folio, edition was succeeded by a 12 volume Octavo edition with revisions. Frognal and its history is discussed
*W.H.Ireland. A New and Complete History of the County of Kent.
George Virtue, London, 1828
Contains a plate of Frognal after the formal gardens
were replaced with a “Capability Brown” landscape, drawn by George Shepherd
*E.A.Webb, G.W.Miller, J.Beckwith. The History of Chislehurst: its church, manors and parish.
George Allen, London, 1899 (reprinted Baron Books for the Chislehurst Society, 1999)
*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 New Zealand Infantryman
London, Oxford University Press, 1963
*Aldrich M. On the edge of the war zone.
London, Constable, 1918
*Alverdes P. The Whistlers’ Room (trans B. Creighton)
London, Martin Secker, 1929
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. The Great Advance. Tales from the Somme Battlefield told by wounded officers and men on their arrival
at Southampton from the Front.
London, Cassell, 1916
*Anon. Wounded and a Prisoner of War (by an exchanged Officer).
Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, 1916
Hit by a machine gun bullet at Bethancourt, this
anonymous officer was captured during the retreat after Mons and imprisoned at
Würtzburg. He was repatriated in 1915
*Armstrong WW. My first week in Flanders
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 Lancashire Fusilier at War 1914-1918.
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
London, Leo Cooper, 2000
Blacker was wounded at the end of the war
and describes his journey through the medical system with remarkable calm
*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
Calthrop DC. The Wounded French Soldier.
St
Catherine Press, 1916
*Carr W. A Time to Leave the Ploughshares. A Gunner Remembers 1917-18.
London, Robert Hale, 1985
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
*“Casualty”. Contemptible.
London, Heinemann, 1916
Memoir of the retreat from Mons to the Aisne. The author appears to have been with the 2nd
South Staffs, and was wounded in the head
*Cunningham T. 1914-1918: The Final Word
London, Stagedoor Publishing, 1993
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
Dawson AJ. The Great Advance (Battle stories of wounded soldiers, recorded by A.J.D.)
London, Cassell, 1916
Eeman H. Captivité
Brussels, La Renaissance du Livre, 1984
Memoirs of a Belgian
Ambassador. His captivity began on
October 10, 1914. From October 15, he was in Soltau prisoner camp (Germany).
Sick, he was in the camp hospital between April and July 1915. In 1917, he
worked as a nurse in the hospital of the Cassel camp; finally, sick again, he
was evacuated to Switzerland, like many sick prisoners. Scarce testimony of
medical services in POW camps in Germany.
* 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 famous Prof. Babinsky (q.v.) using electric shock treatment. He joined the French Foreign Legion after
the war and served in Morocco where he met Major Zinovi Pechkoff, son of Maxim
Gorki, and Colonel Aage (Prince of Denmark and great grandson of King Louis-Philippe
of France).
*Glubb J. Into Battle; A Soldier's Diary of the Great War.
London,
Cassell, 1978
Glubb Pasha survived the war and his facial injury
(treated at Sidcup, and described here in detail) to play a major part in
Britain’s Middle East adventures after the war, although he later fell from
favour.
*Hennebois C. Aux Mains De L'allemagne. Journal d'un grand blessé
Paris,
Plon-Nourrit, 1919
*Kreisler F. Four weeks in the trenches
Boston & New York, Houghton & Mifflin, 1915
Fritz Kreisler, the eminent violinist,
served briefly on the Russian Front with the Austrian army. His brief military career ended when a
Cossack charge left him with a bayonet wound and a damaged shoulder (he was
kicked by a horse). Kreisler’s wife was
a nurse
de Lamandie 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 Bavarian infantryman who spent 5 years on the battle front and in a military hospital)
München, Lehmanns Verlag, 1929
*Leleux C. Feuilles de route d’un ambulancier
Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1915
+MacGill P. The Great Push.
London, Caliban Books 1984
+Martin B. Poor Bloody Infantry. A Subaltern on the Western Front 1916-17.
London, John Murray, 1987
*Mathieson WD. My Grandfather’s War.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1981
*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 Belgium by Marie Curie
*Nichols A. Sons of
Victory.
London,
Waterlow & Sons (printers) 1950
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.
London,
Heinemann, 1918
Nobbs served with the London Rifle Brigade (5th
Londons) and was sniped from a German strongpoint during an attack, losing his
right eye
*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
3. Accounts by, or biographies of, doctors, nurses, ambulancemen and others involved in the care of the wounded soldier
*Abraham JJ. My Balkan Log
London, Chapman & Hall, 1922
J. Johnston Abraham’s description of his Serbian
experience, illustrated with a number of photographs
*Abraham JJ. Surgeon’s Journey.
London, Heinemann 1957
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
Alexinsky T. (trans Cannon G) With the Russian wounded
London, Fisher Unwin, 1916
*Allbee F. A Surgeon’s Fight to Rebuild Men
London, Robert Hale, 1950
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
London, Hutchinson, 1934
Major Alport RAMC served in S. Africa, on the
Salonika front and finally in France
*Anderson IW. Zigzagging
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1918
*Andrew, A. Piatt. Letters from France
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. Letters from a French hospital
London, Constable, 1917
Letters from an English nurse to her uncle
describing events in 1915 and 1916
Anon. The Tale of a casualty clearing station
London, Blackwood, 1917
Anon. Le Faux Miroir. Reflections from the Urgency Case Hospital.
Ash & Co, 1917
*Anon. A War Nurse's diary: sketches from a Belgian field hospital
New York, Macmillan 1918
An illustrated account of nursing from the outbreak
of war to the author’s departure from Belgium in October 1915
Anon. Happy ‑ Though Wounded: the book of the 3rd London Hospital
London, Country Life 1917
*Anon. “Mademoiselle Miss”. Letters from a American girl serving with the rank of Lieutenant in a French Army hospital at the front
Boston, WA Butterfield, 1916
Anon. Nursing adventures: a F.A.N.Y. in France
London, Heinemann, 1917
*Anon. (Sergeant-Major, RAMC). With the RAMC in Egypt.
London, Cassell, 1918
*Anon. The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts. Boulogne-The Somme 1916-1917
London, WA Butterfield, 1917
Following a memorial service for Edith Cavell in Boston, USA in December 1915 funds were raised to send a nurse to serve with the BEF in France. Miss Alice Fitzgerald, who had been head of the operating room at Bellevue Hospital, New York, was appointed to the post. This book contains an account of her experience, with a résumé of the trial of Edith Cavell and the involvement of the US government through the American Legation in seeking her release
Anon. “Doc”. Letters from Somewhere (by a captain in the R.A.M.C., from France and Egypt)
London, Heath Cranton, 1918
Anon. Two years’ Captivity in German East Africa. Being the personal experiences of Surgeon E.C.H., R.N.
London, Hutchinson, 1918
*Anon. War Nurse. The True Story of a Woman who Lived, Loved and Suffered on the Western Front.
New York & Chicago, AL Burt Company, 1930
Illustrated with a series of stills from an “All-Talking Picture” made
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Anon. Kriegs-Erinnerungen eines Korps-Stabs-Apothekers (War memories of a pharmacist officer)
Mittenwald, n.d (c.1920)
*Anon. Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles;
written to his English wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps
Expeditionnaire D'Orient (Transl.
from the French – Soldiers' Tales of the Great War)
Toronto: McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart 1916
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 Tunisia, Egypt, the landing at Koum Kaleh, Sedd-El-Bahr, details
of the battle at Gallipoli, and the evacuation. A day-by-day chronicle of the
operation from the trench level with heartrending accounts of those soldiers he
doctored and of the civilians caught in the war.
*A Red Cross Pro. The Wards in Wartime
Edinburgh, Wm Blackwood & Sons, 1916
Amusing account of a provincial convalescent
hospital
Arnold G. Sister Anne! Sister Anne! Stories of hospital work in France during the war
Toronto: 1919
*Ashford BK. A Soldier in Science
London, Routledge, 1934
An American pathologist on the Western Front,
1917-18.
*Askew C, Askew A. The Stricken Land. Serbia as we saw it
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1916
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 Bielefeld (Westphalia) in
1914-1915.
*Bagnold E. Diary without dates
New York, Luce, 1918
*Balfour, Lady F. Dr Elsie Inglis
London, Hodder& Stoughton, n.d.
Biography of the leading light of the Scottish
Womens Hospitals
Barclay
F.L.G. In hoc vince: the story of a Red
Cross Flag
Putnam, 1915
*Barclay HA. Doctor in France 1917-1919: The Diary of Harold Barclay, Lieutenant-Colonel, American
Expeditionary Forces
New York, privately printed 1923.
*Bayly HW. Triple challenge; or, War, whirligigs and windmills, a doctor's memoirs
London, Hutchinson, 1935
Starting his war service in the
Navy, Bayley was with the Guards on the Somme in 1916 when wounded in the
knee. He returned to France in 1918;
the narrative continues into the 1920s with accounts of his political dealings
Beadnell C Marsh. A Naval Medical Officer’s impressions of a visit to the Trenches
Bale & Danielssohn, 1917
Beauchamp P. Fanny goes to war
London, Murray 1919
*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
Norwich, Jarrold, 1967
Describes the Middle East theatre
Bennett AH. English Medical Women: glimpses of their work in peace and war
London, Pitman, 1914
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
*Binyon L. For Dauntless France.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1918
Laurence Binyon served with an Ambulance Unit behind
the French front
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
New York, Scribner, 1919
*Blackham Col RJ. Scalpel, Sword and Stretcher.
London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co Ltd.,
Booth M. With The B.E.F. in France
London, The Salvation Army, 1916
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.
London, William Heinemann, 1929
A moving account of nursing experiences
*Boschi G (ed.). La Guerra e le Arti Sanitarie. Collezione Italiana di diari, memorie, studi e documenti per servire alla storia della Guerra del mondo, diretta da Angelo Gatti (War and the sanitary arts. Collection of Italian diaries, memoirs, studies and documents relating to the Great War)
Milan, Montadori. 1931
*Botcharsky S, Pier F. They Knew How To Die. Being a Narrative of the Personal Experiences of a Red Cross
Sister on the Russian Front
London, Peter Davies, 1931
Front line hospital experiences
Boubée, l’Abbé Joseph. Parmi les blesses allemands (Among the wounded in Belgium in the first five months of war)
Plon-Nourrit, 1916
*Bowerman, GE Jr. (Ed. Carnes MC). The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance driver during the Great War
Austin, University of Texas Press, 1983
Bowerman served as an ambulance driver in France and
Germany for a year and a half. This book is based on the recopied and amplified
version of his diary which he prepared in 1919
*Boyd W. With a field ambulance at Ypres. Being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915.
Toronto, Musson Book Company, 1916
*Boyd-Orr, 1st baron. As I recall
London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1966
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
New York, Washburn, 1927
*Bradford M. A hospital letter writer in France
London, Methuen, 1920
The wife of Sir John Rose Bradford,
Consulting Physician to the BEF, May Bradford sat by innumerable bedsides in
Boulogne and Etaples writing letters to dictation for wounded soldiers. It is clear from her writing that the post
of letter-writer (not one that is generally known about) entailed the provision
of essential, if amateur, psychology services to the sick and injured
Breitner B. Unvervundet Gefangen - Aus meinem Sibirischen Tagebuch.
(A Prisoner, but not wounded. From my Siberian Diary)
Rikola Verlag, 1921
An account of a doctor’s experience as a POW in
Siberia dealing with epidemic disease
*Britnieva, M. One woman's story
London, Barker, 1934
English born, Mary Britnieva served as a nurse on
the Russian front where her husband was a medical officer. After the war he had several brushes with
the G.P.U. before being arrested in 1928; two years later she was told that he
had “disappeared”
Bruce C. Humour in tragedy, hospital life behind three Fronts
London, Skeffington, 1918
*Bradley AO. Back of the front in France.
London, Butterfield, 1918
*Bryan JH. Ambulance 464.
New York, Macmillan, 1918
Julian Bryan served with SSU 12
Bucher WE. Surgeon Errant
Los Angeles, Angeles Press, 1935.
Description of the 3rd American Red Cross Mission in
Siberia 1918-1919.
*Buswell L. With the American Ambulance Field Service in France.
Privately Printed, Cambridge, MA. 1915.
*Buswell L. Ambulance No. 10: personal letters from the Front
London, Constable, 1917
Leslie Buswell served with SSU 2
*Butler HA. Overseas Sketches. Being a Journal of My Experiences in Service With the American Red Cross in France
Youngstown (OH), Privately Printed 1921
Privately printed memoirs in an edition of 300 of an American's service with the Red Cross in World War I.
Cahill AF (ed).
Between the Lines: Letters and Diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit
Bishop Auckland, Pentland Press, 1999
Calthorp DC. The Wounded French soldier
London, St Catherine Press, 1916
Campbell P. Back of the Front: experiences of a nurse
London, Newnes 1915
*Carossa H. A Roumanian Diary (Translated from the German by Agnes Neil Scott)
NY, Alfred A. Knopf 1930
In
his “War Books”, Cyril Falls wrote: “The writer of this diary, the greater part
of which is concerned with the campaign against Rumania, was a battalion
medical officer...the descriptions of scenery,of the people of Transylvania, of
scenes at an advanced dressing-station during a battle, of the writer's own thoughts and dreams, are
masterly. It may be added that the translation is quite exceptionally good.”
*Catchpool TC. On two fronts.
London, Headley, 1918
Corder Catchpool was a conscientious objector
*Cator D. In a French military hospital
London, Longmans, 1915
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
Caucasus and High-Euphrates, May 1917 - February 1919)
*Clarke-Kennedy A.E. Edith Cavell
London, Faber & Faber, 1965.
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 Belgian, French and British troops.
*Clarke RG. The Evolution of a Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front.
Bristol, Bristol Medico-Chirugical Society 1936
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
Cambridge, 1917
*Cope Z. Almroth Wright, Founder of Modern Vaccine Therapy
London, Nelson, 1966.
Wright was instrumental in developing ant-typhoid
vaccine
*Corbet E. Red
Cross in Serbia 1915-1919. A personal
diary of experiences
Banbury,
Cheney & Sons, 1964
Nursing experiences from Salonika to Serbia
*Coyle ER. Ambulancing on the French front
New York: Britton 1918
Ibid. Field ambulance sketches
London, Lane, 1919
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 East Africa
Toronto, Keneggy West, 2001
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
*de Croy, Princesse M. Souvenirs, 1914-1918
Paris, Plon (Coll. Le Martyre des Pays envahis), 1933
A nursing memoir of
a Belgian princess on the North Front.
The same author appears also to have produced a 1914-15 memoir with a
Flemish spelling (de Croij, Princesse M.
Souvenirs 1914-1915; Paris, Plon, 1944)
*Culpin M.
Psychoneuroses of War and Peace
Cambridge,
University Press, 1920
*Cummings EE. The
Enormous Room.
London,
Jonathan Cape, 1928
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
New York, Exposition Press, 1979
*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
London, Lane, 1920
*Dearmer M. Letters
from a Field Hospital.
London,
Macmillan, 1915
Mabel Dearmer was married to Percy, Canon of
Westminster who was renowned as the author of the “English Hymnal”; she herself
was an illustrator and writer of note.
She died of enteric fever in Serbia on 11th July 1915. Her son Geoffrey was a minor war poet; his
younger brother was killed in the Gallipoli campaign
*Dearden H. Medicine and duty. A war diary
London, Heinemann, 1928
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
London, Heinemann, 1940
Dease A With the French Red Cross
New York, Kennedy 1917
*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 Lyon
the following year. Useful introduction
by Stéphane Audoin-Rozeau
*Dent O. A V.A.D.
in France
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
Belgian doctor. Analysis of the book is
necessarily limited (our version is uncut)
*Derby R. 'Wade in, Sanitary!', the story of a Division Surgeon in France
New York, Putnam, 1919
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
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1918
*Dixon J (intro). Little Grey Partridge
Aberdeen University Press, 1988
The First World War diary of Isobel Ross, who served
with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals’ unit in Serbia
*Dixon TB. The Enemy Fought Splendidly
Poole, Blandford Press, 1983
Dixon served as Surgeon to HMS Kent at the
Falklands, 1914-15
*Dolbey R.V. A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison.
London, John Murray, 1917
MO with the KOSB.
Captured at La Bassée during 1st Ypres
*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 Verdun), some of whom
survived but many of whom did no (usually as the result of infection). Duhamel’s book is the medical equivalent of
Henriette Rémi’s book “Hommes sans Visage”
*Dunham F, Haigh RH, Turner PW (Eds). The long carry. The journal of stretcher bearer Frank Dunham 1916-1918.
London, Pergamon Press, 1970
*Dunn JC. The War the Infantry Knew 1914-19
London, Janes Publishing, 1987
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
Melbourne, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1972
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 Belgian
Ambassador. From October 1914 he was in Soltau prisoner camp (Germany). Sick,
he was sent to the hospital from April to July 1915. In 1917, he worked as a
nurse in the hospital of the Cassel camp; finally, sick again, he was evacuated
to Switzerland, like many sick prisoners. Scarce testimony of medical services in prison camps in Germany.
Enke-Habermaas L. Drei Jahre im Lazarettzug, 1915-1918. Nach Tagebuchblättern (3 years in an ambulance train, 1915-1918. From diary sheets)
Stuttgart, 1935
Eydoux‑Demains M. In a French hospital
London, Fisher Unwin, 1915
*Farmborough F. Nurse at the Russian Front. A diary 1914-1918
London, Constable, 1974
An interesting account illustrated by the author’s
own photographs
Fevre M.
Guerre et Chirurgie. Souvenirs du blessé et du chirurgien
(France), SEGEP, 1953
Memoirs of WW1 and WW2.
Figowski, M. Quelques souvenirs du service sanitaire de la campagne 1914-1915
Paris, 1915
*Finzi K. Eighteen Months in the War Zone. The record of a woman’s work on the Western Front
London, Cassell, 1916
A diary from October 1914 to February 1916, when
Kate Finzi returned to England through ill-health
Fitzroy
Y. With the Scottish Nurses in
Roumania.
London, J. Murray, 1918.
*Florez, C de. No. 6: a few pages from the diary of an ambulance driver
New York, Dutton, 1918
Furse K. Hearts and Pomegranates: The Story of Forty-Five years 1875-1920.
London: Peter Davies, 1940.
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.
*Gallagher CJ (ed Mary E Malloy). The Cellars of Marcelcave: A Yank Doctor in the BEF
Shippensburg, PA, Burd Street Press, 1998
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
London, Daniel, 1920
*Gibbs Sir P. Realities of War.
London, Heinemann, 1920
Observations of a War correspondent
*Gleason AH. With the first War ambulance in Belgium.
New York, Burt, 1918
Gleichen H. Contacts and contrasts: experiences of a nurse with the Italian Armies
London, Murray, 1940
*Gosse P. Memoirs of a Camp Follower
London, Longmans, 1935.
Life as a Medical Officer on the Western Front and
in India.
*Gower M F Duchess of Sutherland. Six weeks at the war
London, The Times, 1914
*Grow MC. Surgeon Grow, an American in the Russian fighting
New York, Stokes, 1918
Malcolm Grow chose to join a front line Russian
surgical team; some of his exploits, including a trench raid, were perhaps
unethical! A vivid account of fighting
on the Eastern Front
*Gray T. Hospital days in Rouen
London, Cowans & Gray, 1919
*Greeman E. Grandpa’s War. The French adventures of a World War 1 Ambulance driver
New York, Writers and Readers Publishing, 1992
*Groc L. Les brancardiers du Bois le prêtre (Stretcher-bearers of Priests Wood)
(France), Rouff (Coll. Patrie #94), 1918
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
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1963
The
story of Noel Chavasse, VC and bar, and
his twin brother Christopher, who became Bishop of Rochester
Hand-Newton CT. A Physician in Peace and War
Christchurch, NM Peryer, 1967
Harden HSS. Faenza Rest Camp: a story of the Mediterranean L. of C.
London, Hutchinson, 1920
*Harmer M. The Forgotten Hospital
Chichester, Springwood Books, 1982
By the son of Dr William Harmer, who worked at the
Anglo-Russian Hospital established by Lady Muriel Paget. The hospital had a field arm and a base in
Petrograd
*Harrison CH. With the American Red Cross in France, 1918‑1919
Chicago, Seymour 1947
*Hays HM. Cheerio!, an American medical officer with the British Army
New York, Knopf, 1919
*Herringham Sir W.
A Physician in France.
London,
Edward Arnold, 1919
A senior physician who intersperses his medical
experiences with astute observations on France and the French
*His W. German doctor at the Front
Harrisburg, National Service, 1933
Originally published as Die Front der Ärzte,
Bielefeld, Velhagen und Klasing, 1931
*Hoehling AA. Edith Cavell
London, Cassell & Co, 1958
*Hungerford E. With the doughboy in France: a few chapters of an American effort
New York, Macmillan 1920
Hutton IE. With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol
London, Williams & Norgate 1928
Ibid. Memories of a Doctor in War and Peace
London, Heinemann, 1960
Chapters 14-19 cover her WW1 experience
*Hutchinson W. The Doctor in war
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1918
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 Singapore: A Medical Officer in two World Wars
London,
Kangaroo Press, 1987 (Costello ed 1988)
Huxtable served with the 2nd Battn, Lancashire
Fusiliers
*Imbrie RW. Behind the wheel of a war ambulance
New York, McBride, 1918
*Javal A. La Grande Pagaïe (1914-1918)
Paris, Denoël, 1937
Jeans TT. Reminiscences of a Naval Surgeon
London, Sampson Low, 1927.
Surgeon Rear-Admiral on hospital ship in Turkey.
*Jobson A. Via Ypres: the story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulance
London, Westminster City, 1935
*Judd JR. With the American Ambulance in France
Honolulu, Star-Bulletin Press, 1919
An interesting book (with graphic cover), Judd
describes his work at the American Hospitals at Neuilly and Juilly, and
incorporates a number of eyewitness accounts of injury
*Kay S. Froth and Bubble
Sydney, privately printed, 1918
A small pamphlet describing a few episodes of hospital work (largely in the Middle East) written by a major in the AAMC
Keynes G. The Gates of Memory
Oxford & New York, 1981
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 Australian
girl. After working in France and the
Balkans with the Scottish Womens’ Hospitals she joined the Serbian army as a
driver attached to the Medical Service based in Salonika
*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 Neuilly. Not seen, but possibly the original French version of the first
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 Army School of Nursing (created in
1918). Pages 83-112 cover U.S. Army
nursing during World War I and the Army School of Nursing.
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
New York, Putnam, 1934
*de Launoy J. Infirmieres 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 medecin-major, 1914-1917
Paris, Payot, 1932
Laval E. Médecine et merveilleux Paramedical. Souvenirs, expériences et réflexions d'un médecin de Paris, 1930-1939
Paris, Corrêa, 1942
One chapter is devoted to WW1,
during which the author was Médecin-Colonel
*Laveille ESJ. Au service des blesses, 1914-1918
Bruxelles-Paris, Action Catholique-Libr. Giraudon, 1923:
Life
and death of 13 very young Belgian Jesuits killed during World War I, during
which they served as stretcher-bearers in the Belgian Army.
*Layton TB. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, Bt. An enquiry into the mind and influence of a surgeon
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, Lt. Col, U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1917-1918.