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. The library has now been transferred
to the Brotherton Library,
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 contained 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
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
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
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
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
Appleton E (ed. Cowen R). War Diaries: A Nurse at the Front
London, Simon & Schuster (IWM), 2012
The edited diaries of Edie Appleton,
who served in France and Belgium
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”
Atkinson
D. Elsie and Mairi go to War: Two
extraordinary women on the Western Front
Modern
account of the work of Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, who worked in Pervyse
(q.v)
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
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
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 an 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
Brown H. Pickerill. Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental
Education and Dental Research
Otago, University Press, 2007
The
first biography of Henry Percy Pickerill, who came to the Queen's Hospital
Sidcup as leader of the
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
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
Cameron
A (ed). A Surgeon’s
Tunbridge Wells, Acclaim, 1986
Diaries
covering Cameron’s service from 1905 to 1932, including WW1 service in
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
Somerset, Wells Cathedral Press,
1956
Hilda
Clark was a member of the shoe manufacturing Clark family of Street,
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
“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
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
? 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
Hallam
A&N (Eds). Lady Under Fire on the Western Front
Letters
of Lady Dorothie Feilding, the twenty-five year old daughter of the Earl of
Denbigh. She spent nearly four years on the Western Front in Belgium driving
ambulances, and had the distinction of being became the first woman to be
awarded the Military Medal for her bravery as well as the French Croix de
Guerre and the Belgian Order of Leopold
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
High P
(ed). Hospital Barges in
Brief summary of the
barge flotilla, with the letters home of Sister Millicent Peterkin. She
joined her barge in February 1918 but there is no reference to the German
attack of march, from which one may perhaps presume that the influence of
this was minimal behind the lines
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,
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
Kennard,
Lady. A Roumanian Diary. 1915, 1916,1917
Includes
an account of Red cross Hospitals and their work
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
De L'Isle A. Leaves from a
V.A.D.'s Diary
Elliot Stock, 1922.
Impressions & recollections – some amusing, many evocative – of wartime work in a
military hospital that "like many others, had been a family mansion. The
owner had lent it 'for the duration.'
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
Mackenna RW.
Through a Tent Door
Mackenna was a gynaecologist who was called
up in 1914, served at the Fazackerley Hospital, Liverpool until 1917 and was
then posted to the 57th
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
Rare privately
printed memoir & a most unusual viewpoint of RAMC TF officer appointed OC
51st Highland Division Sanitary Section. Served France 1915-18: "Our war
involved us in a ceaseless attack on the camping grounds & lurking places
of the agents of disease" - unglamourous but essential work, from
education of troops in personal hygiene (some of the Highlanders took exception
it seems) to disposal of waste matter, provision of latrines, prevention of
disease &c. Much of interest on life in the war zone (notes from Turner
Donovan Books)
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,
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)
McEwen
Y. It’s a Long Way to
McQueen
JM. Our War: Being the Experiences in
Dudley,
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
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
Ramsay, Ron J. ( ed. ) Hell, Hope and Heroes. Life in
the Field Ambulance in World War I -- the Memoirs of Private Roy Ramsay A.I.F
Australia, Rosenberg
Publishing Pty. Ltd
In 1915, Private Roy Ramsay, freshly trained at a camp near Brisbane,
set sail from Australia for the Middle East with the 4th Light Horse Field
Ambulance. Serving on hospital ships in 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.
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
Spackman
RA (ed Spackman A) Captured at Kut,
Prisoner of the Turks
Record
of the Medical Officer of an Indian infantry battalion in
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
Stephens
H et al. Two years with the French
Army. Section Sanitaire Anglaise 19
Subtitled
“An Account of the work of a Motor-Ambulance Convoy of the friends’ Ambulance
Unit, B.R.C.S., 1916-1918. Covers
several areas; includes a list of members (and, curiously, their postwar
addresses)and describes both the work of the Unit and its social life
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
Stevenson
B. Betty Stevenson, Y.M.C.A. Croix De Guerre AVEC Palme.
Sept. 3, 1896 - MAY 30, 1918.
Important letters from the young Betty Stevenson, a nurse, to her family
- written in France where she worked with the Y.M.C.A. from early 1916 to May
1918 when she was killed in a bombing raid near Etaples.
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
Tanner
WE.
Biography
of the head of army surgery in WW1, but curiously lacking much mention of his
war work although the credit for the development of the Queen's Hospital Sidcup
is attributed to Lane and Henry Tonks.
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
Translated as “Before
my Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and
Military medicine on the Western front, 1914-1918” (Farnham, Ashgate
Publishing, 2009)
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
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
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
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
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
Allen
A. Hospital ships from the Great War
Western Front Association, 1999
One
of a series of booklets on topics of the Great War illustrated with
contemporary postcards. This is No 8; of
the 14 No 5 covers St Dunstan’s Hospital and No 11 is “Battle Casualties and
the RAMC”
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
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
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
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. Red Cross Hospitals of
Norwich, Morris Printing Co, 1917
22 hospitals and one ambulance train
are covered by this booklet
Anon. Report of the
Privately printed, n.d
A
detailed report of hospital work, including notes by visitors, diets, diseases
treated and operations performed, and at the end a list of “Telegrammed Letters
from Soldiers expressing their gratefulness”.
The illustrations are numerous; black &white photographs with added
colour in some. Paper and binding have suffered from the prolonged heat
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
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…”
W.J. Clark & Co.,
(1921).
Rare, privately printed war history of a
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
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:
The first & only volume
of a proposed 'Popular Medical History of the War,' covers the first two months
on the Western Front i.e., Mons, Retreat, Le Cateau, Marne & the Aisne:
"In order that his account may be strictly accurate, official documents,
diaries, etc., have been placed at Lt.-Col. Brereton's disposal" - from
the Preface by the DGAMS. List of medical staff officers with BEF appended
British Committee sitting at the
N.p.,n.d
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
Currie JR. The mustering of
medical service in
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
Deranian HM: Miracle Man of the Western Front: Dr. Varaztad H.
Kazanjian, Pioneer Plastic Surgeon.
Worcester (
Account of the work of the most
important
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
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.
Godden
L (ed). History of the Royal Army Dental Corps
Aldershot, RADC, 1971
Although the RADC was not formed until after WW1 this book outlines its
origins from the experience of the Boer War onwards
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
Haynes
HGL. The Second-Seconds in
London, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co
Ltd, 1920
Unit history with list of members appended,
illustrated throughout with miniature line drawings
This
mobile hospital was established at
Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion
ed., Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Here
in Weltering 1914-1918, 3 vols.
Mittler & Sohn, 1934-1938
The
official history of the German medical and sanitary services, as follows:
vol. 1: Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion ed.,
Gliederung des Heeressanitätswesens im Weltkriege 1914/1918
vol.
2: Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion ed., Der Sanitätsdienst im Gefechts und
Schlachtenverlauf im Weltkrieg 1914/1918
vol.
3: Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion ed., Die Krankenbewegung bei dem Deutschen Feld
und Besatzungsheer im Weltkriege 1914/1918
territories))
Helys M.
Cantinière de la Croix-Rouge, 1914-1916
Paris, Perrin, 1917
Hendrie
WF, Macleod DAD. The Bangour Story: a
history of
Originally built as a lunatic
asylum, the hospital was transformed into the
High
P (ed). Hospital Barges in
Brief summary of the barge flotilla, with the letters home of Sister
Millicent Peterkin. She joined her barge in February 1918 but there is no
reference to the German attack of March, from which one may perhaps presume
that the influence of this was minimal behind the lines
His
W. Die Front der Ärtzte (The Doctors’
Front)
Velhagen & Klasing, 1931.
Reports of medical service in
Hoare
P.
The
history of the
Howe
MA de W (Ed). The Harvard Volunteers in
A series of contributions from Harvard men,
including Harvey Cushing, Varazdad Kazanj
Hume
EE. Victories of Army Medicine.
Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the US Army
Includes a
substantial section on medical advances in WW1
Hume EE. The
Medical Book of Merit. United States
Army and Navy decorations awarded to medical officers for distinguished service
in the World War
Washington,
Association of Military Surgeons, 1925
Humphries
EM, Gladwin FF. An unofficial Guide to the racecourse Hospital,
Cheltenham, 1915
Jaccottet G. et al . L'etape
Liberatrice. Au Soleil et sur les Monts.
La vie de nos soldats et de nos allies internes en Suisse
This book shows how,
during World War One, many sick and wounded French and English soldiers were
welcomed in Swiss hospitals and convalescent homes. Two chapters are also
translated into English and one chapter is only in English. These chapters mainly
concern English soldiers
Jobson
A. Via
Kernodle
PB. The Red Cross Nurse In Action, 1882-1948.
Part
2 covers the Great War
Krippner
M. The Quality of mercy. Women at
Describes the adventure and ordeals of
doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers in the Balkans
Laffin
J. Surgeons in the field
A
survey of military medicine from earliest times to WW2. Chapters 20-22 cover the Great War
Lauder
J R. The story of the
London, Heinemann, 1920
Lefebvre P (ed) Histoire de la médecine aux armées. 3, De
1914 à nos jours
Paris, Lavauzelle, 1987 (Comité d'histoire du Service de santé )
History of the medical services of the French Army
before, during and after WW1.
Leigh
D. The background of battle
London, Hodder & Stoughton 1916
Lejars F. Un hôpital militaire à Paris pendant la guerre:
Villemin. 1914-1919
Paris, Masson et Cie,
1923
Lejeune R. Saint-Laurent de Liege. Eglise, abbaye et
hopital militaire. Mille and d'histoire Liège
Soledi / Université de Liège, 1968
Contains : Danloy, G. Ģ L'hopital militaire Saint-Laurent de Liège
dans les premiers jours de la guerre 1914-1918 ģ (pp 271-277); Hoclemeyer
H. L'hopital militaire Saint-Laurent ā Liège vu ā travers
l'organisation des Services de santé de l'Armée allemande en 1914-1918 (pp 277-282); Heylen V. L. L'hopital
militaire Saint-Laurent de Liège, centre du droit international médical (pp 331-336) (concerns WW1).
Lidbetter
H, Monk-Jones N. SSA14 1915-1919. An
Account of the activities in
the Friends’
Ambulance Unit
A rather dull day by day account of an
ambulance unit
Likeman
R. Men of the Ninth. A History of the
Ninth Austral
Victoria (
Traces the history of the 9th Austral
Lindsay
J, Lindsay D. The Story of the Red Cross
Austral
A pictorial story compiled for children by Joan and Daryl Lindsay during the Second
World War, with a considerable section on the Great War. The Queen’s Hospital Sidcup is illustrated
and a number of Lindsay’s own drawings appear, including one from his “Digger”
book.
Linon P. Officiers d'administration du Service de Santé. Monographie d'un Corps,
d'une Association
Paris, EREMM, 1983
Contains
a number of biographies of WW1 doctors
n.d (?private printing)
Lovegrove
P. Not Least in the Crusade. A Short History of the RAMC
Gale and Parden, 1955
Lovejoy
EP. Certain Samaritans.
The work of American Women's Hospitals in the
Balkans
Lucas
BJ. Children of France and the Red
Cross
Lugard
EA. Some impressions of the work of the
British Red Cross in
MacPhail
A. Official History of the Canad
Masson M. A Pictorial History
Of Nursing
Very well compiled pictorial history of nursing with an important
chapter on nursing in WW1. The illustrations are a mix of original paintings,
photographs and posters.
McGreal S. The war on hospital ships 1914-1918
McKernan M. Padre - Austral
Allen & Unwin
Sydney London
Much of the content
deals with casualty work
McLaren
B. Women of the War
NY, George H. Doran 1918
Women in World War I; much material on military
medicine and on nursing.
McLaren. History of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals
McLaughlin
R. The Royal Army Medical Corps
One of the "Famous Regiments" series; see also Piggott J.
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (1975)
Midwinter
C. Memoirs of the 32nd Field Ambulance,
Xth (Irish) Division
Privately printed, 1933
Ministry
of Pensions. Location of Hospitals and
Casualty Clearing Stations, British Expeditionary Force 1914-1919.
A foolscap bound typescript listing all
units: part 1, numbered hospitals in
Moisant J H.
L'armée silencieuse. Le personnel du Service de Santé pendant la guerre
Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle,
1917
Moore MM. The Maple Leaf's Red
Cross. The war story of the Canad
London, Skeffington 1919
Moreau É. Les
hôpitaux de Vendée durant la guerre : l'accueil des blessés et malades en
Vendée pendant la Guerre 1914-1918
La Roche-sur-Yon,
Amicale philatélique yonnaise, 1996
History
of Hospitals in Vendée during the WW1 through a philatelic study.
Morse
EW. The Vanguard of American
Volunteers. In the fighting lines and in
humanitar
Part
3 relates to the American Red Cross in Servia [sic], part 4 to American
Ambulances in
Noyes
FW. Stretcher Bearers… At the Double!
Toronto, Hunter-Rose Co, 1937
History of the 5th
Canad
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; General History, Volume 1
Medical services in the
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; General History, Volume 2
Medical services on the Western
Front, and during the operations in
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; General History, Volume 3
Medical
services during the operations on the Western Front in 1916, 1917 and 1918; In
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; General History, Volume 4.
Medical
services during the operations on the
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services. Diseases of the war, Volume 2
Including
the medical aspects of aviation and gas warfare and gas poisoning in tanks and
mines
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; Surgery of the War, Volumes1 &
2.
The second volume contains a chapter on
facial injury contributed by Gillies and Mendelson, illustrated with cases from
Sidcup. The chapter has a bias towards
the dental aspects with photographs of several splints and prostheses.
The Medical section of the Official History
comprises the following: Diseases Of The War (2 Vols), Hygiene Of The War (2
Vols), Surgery Of The War (2 Vols) and Pathology (1 Vol)
Official
History of the Great War: Medical Services; Casualties and Medical Statistics
Record
and analysis of over 11 million casualties.
Statistics for facial injuries are hard to determine, as they are “lost”
within a generic group of head, face and neck
Official
History of the Austral
The 3 volume set was reprinted in 1938, 1940
and 1943. Volume 1 covers Gallipoli,
Official
History of
Whitcomb & Tombs, 1923
Includes
a section on nurses, hospitals, hospital ships and the dental service
Oliver,
Beryl. G.B.E. R.R.C. The British Red
Cross in Action.
Includes chapters on the BRCS's work during
WWI including sections on VADs, work abroad, and in
Ott
K, Serlin D, Mihm S (eds). Artificial
Parts, Practical Lives. Modern histories
of Prosthetics
A wide-ranging collection of essays including
”Re-arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially
Paget
L. With our Serb
Privately printed, c.1916
Report
on Lady Paget’s Hospital Unit in
Peed
GP. American Red Cross Military Hospital
no. 1, formerly American Ambulance
Hospital of Paris
? publisher, 1918
This annual report of
the American Red Cross Military Hospital No.1, of the American Expeditionary
Forces in
Illustrated with
black and white photos.
Perriaux L. Le
Camp américain de Beaune: 1918 Hôpital de campagne
Beaune,
Centre beaunois d’études historiques, 1980
Peters
W.
Piggott
J. Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing
Corps
Pitcher
A. The
Outlines
the history of the hospital, which first admitted patients in 1879 and closed
in 1996. Contains a substantial section
on the work of Gillies and his colleagues
Plumridge
JH. Hospital Ships and Ambulance
Trains.
London, Seeley, Service & Co.,
1975
Detailed account of the organisation of
transport facilities for seriously wounded men.
Pottle
FA. Stretchers. The Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western
Front.
History of
Read
J. The
Glasgow, James
Maclehose & Sons, 1917
Printed as a
commemorative book for private circulation and containing numerous photographs
of the facilities and workshops. The
hospital was the Scottish equivalent of Queen Mary's Roehampton
Reinach
J. Le Service de Santé pendant la guerre
Paris, Blond et Gay
(Pages actuelles 1914-1915), 1915
Covers
the Great War and, crucially, the immediate aftermath. Much primary source material is used
Roubaud N, Brehamet RN. Le Colonel Picot et les Gueules
Cassées
Paris, Nouvelles Ed.
Latines, 1960
French description of Picot, his military
service and injury and the work he did to develop the “self-help” group of
facially injured Frenchmen
Samuelson
P (ed.). I owe my Life
A celebration of the 125th anniversary of the
British Red Cross, with a substantial section on the Great War
Sawyer
JEH (ed).
Covers the work of the South
Midland Field Ambulances and CCSs, with sections on the
Sergent E and E.
L'armée d'Orient Delivrée du Paludisme
Paris, Masson et Cie,
1932
A short book written
for non-medical workers (middle grade army officers, engineers etc) based on
the experience of the French army around Salonika and in
Several authors. Le Corps de Santé
Militaire forme par l'école du Val-de-Grâce 1850-1956
(France), Société
Amicale des Elčves et Anciens Elčves du Val-de-Grâce et de l'Ecole du
Service de Santé Militaire de Lyon, 1957
Shay
M. A grateful heart: the history of a
World War 1 field hospital
History of the 103rd
Field Hospital, 26th Division, US Army
Shipley
AM. The officers and nurses of
Evacuation Eight
Smith A. From Battlefield to Blighty: Frodsham
Auxiliary Military Hospital, 1915-1919
Wirral, Avid Publications, 2001
Account
of the hospital established in Frodsham,
Smith F. A short history of the Royal Army Medical
Corps
Smith HZ. Blessés de guerre
Paris, Gallimard, 1934
Smucker,
JR Jr. The History of the United States Army Ambulance Service with the French
and Ital
This commemorative history was published by
the
Snell
A.E. The C.A.M.C. with the Canad
Effectively an “Official History” with lists
of personnel, their movements, and a series of folding maps
Stephen
GN.
Stubbings
L. "Look what you started Henry!" A History of the Austral
Summers,
Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914.
The definitive history of British military
nursing from before Nightingale through the establishment of the QAIMNS and the
VADs.
Swann JC (Maj-Gen). The citizen soldiers of
Buckinghamshire. 1795 - 1926. Compiled with the kind assistance of many of the
officers of the corps concerned
Hazell, Watson & Vineyfor the Buckinghamshire Territorial Army
Association,1930
Record of the Royal Bucks Hussars in Gallipoli, Egypt
and Palestine; of the 23nd South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance again
in Gallipoli and Egypt; of the Ist Bucks Battalion on the Somme in
1916 and in Italy in 1917 & 1918.
Tatham
M, Miles JE. The Friends' Ambulance Unit
1914-1919.
The Society of Friends were involved with the
operation of field ambulances and of several ambulance trains.
A “popular” account
of military nursing; somewhat repetitive but well researched, with a
substantial section on the Great War
Troussaint, Médecin-inspecteur. La Direction du Service de Santé en
campagne. Notions generales, d'ordre militaire, administratif, technique, nécessaires
à tous les directeurs et chefs de service dans les principales situations de
guerre depuis la mobilisation jusqu'à la bataille
Paris -
Instruction
book for the medical service, describing organisation down to the last detail,
including the contents of the equipment cases.
The contents of Case 3 (cooking utensils) include a 2-litre cafetière,
coffee grinder and corkscrew
Troussaint, Médecin-inspecteur. Une page de l'histoire du service de santé
militaire. Sa préparation à la guerre et l'oeuvre de la 7ème Direction pendant
la première année de guerre.
Paris,
Charles-Lavauzelle, 1919
Tyquin MB. Gallipoli : The Medical War : The Austral
1995
Vallotton B.
Soldats Aveugles en France.
Lausanne,
Librairie F. Rouge et Cie, 1916
A booklet produced by the Fond Suisse Romand,
established to assist blind soldiers in
Vandercook
M. The Red Cross Girls in the British
Trenches
J.C. Winston, 1916
Varenne L. Organisation et fonctionnement du service
pharmaceutique de l'armée (Organisation and functions of the army
pharmaceutical service)
Van
Schaik J. The little corner never
conquered: the story of the American Red Cross war work for
Viv
Volpi
J-C. Menton-Roquebrune : 1914-1918 / [cartes postales réunies et présentées par]
Jean- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Impr. Ar
A history of Menton
during WW1, based on a substantial collection of postcards. There is a large section on hospitals, many
converted from hotels
Westmore
AW, Thomson M, Allison JE. The Story of
the 63rd Field Ambulance (2/2 West Lancashire Field Ambulance T.F)
1914-1919
Liverpool, Wood & Sloane Ltd,
Printers, for the 63rd Fd. Amb. Association, n.d., c.1927
Whalen
RW. Bitter Wounds. German victims of the Great War, 1914-1939
An
account of the experience of German “war victims” (which includes disabled
veterans, widows and orphans) and the rehabilitation and pension arrangements
of postwar
Williams
RR. Breuddwyd Cymro mewn Dillad
Benthyg. Hanes y Cwmni Cymreig I’r
Corfflu Meddygol a ymunodd yn y Rhyfel Gyntaf 1914-1918 (Dream of a Welshman in
borrowed clothes.
The story of the Welsh Company of the Medical Corps who joined in First War
1914-1918) [thanks to Mrs R Gallacher for translation]
Lerpwl, Gwasg y Brython (
Written in Welsh, this is as
impenetrable to me as our Russ
Wood
FJ. The 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance and the Great War, 1914-1919.
5. Medical or nursing textbooks; texts on
management & rehabilitation of disability
Adam C (ed). Seuchenbekämpfung im Kriege. (The fight
against epidemic diseases in War)
With, among others, a
contribution by A. von Wasserman.
Adam
C (ed). Die Behandlung von
Kriegsverletzungen und Kriegskrankheiten in den Heimatslazaretten (Management
of war injuries and illnesses in home hospitals)
In
2 volumes with 30 articles
Allbee
FH. Bone graft surgery
Definitive
text by one of the pioneers of bone grafts who wrote of his experiences at
Allers
R. Über Schädelschüsse. Probleme der
Klinik und Fürsorge (Bullet wounds of
the skull. Clinical care and problems)
Alport
AC. Malaria and its treatment in the
line and at base
Baltimore, Wood, 1919
Alquier
P, Tanton J. L’Appareillage dans les fractures de guerre
Paris,
Masson et Cie, 1918
Amar J (trans Miall B).
The
physiology of industrial organisations and the re-employment of the disabled
Including sections on physiology and neurosis
Anon. Abstracts, Translations and Reviews of Recent
Literature on the Subject of the Reconstruction and Reeducation of the Disabled
Soldier
This
is the second Bulletin (the first entitled Recent “Reviews, Correspondence and
Reports regarding the Surgical Care and Vocational Rehabilitation of the Maimed
Soldier”. Typescript with photographs,
Bulletin 2 includes a review of Martinier and Lemerle’s book on face and jaw
injuries, written by Vilray Blair. There
is also a review of the work of St Dunstan’s (or Pearson’s Hostels, as the
service was then known)
Anon. Army.
Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry into “Shell-shock”
The
official report on shell shock, containing many witness statements by eminent
clinic
Anon. Besluit van den 25sten maart 1918, houdende
vaststelling van een reglement op het geneeskundig onderzoek omtrent de
geschiktheid voor den krijgsdienst (Decree from March 25 1918, establishing the
rules of medical inspection with regard to suitability for military service)
Anon. British medicine in the war. Being essays on problems of medicine, surgery
and pathology
A collection of articles which originally
appeared in the British Medical Journal from April to October 1917. Contains
articles on bacteriology, trench fever, hospital ships, surgery (including
anaesthetics, antiseptics, shock, infections, wounds, fractures), gas gangrene,
orthopaedic hospitals, artificial limbs, gunshot wounds, and British medical
women, among other topics
Anon (Croix-Rouge francaise).
Bulletin et assemblée generale de la Societé française de Secours aux
Blessés Militaires
Anon. Field Service Manual 1913 (Reprint – Includes
1914 War Establishments); Army Medical Service. (Expeditionary Force)
Melbourne, Albert Mullett,
Government Printer, 1914
Manual
for the Austral
Anon. First Aid in the Royal Navy (Military Manual
series)
Standard
naval manual at the beginning of the war.
It covers some odd topics, including snake and dog bites (presumably
acquired while on shore leave)
Anon. Handy Book for the Hospital
Anon. Home Service and the disabled soldier or
sailor
Washington, American Red Cross, 1918
Anon. Instruction
medicale pour les capitaines des batiments de la marine Nationale depourvus de
médecins et munis des coffres a medicaments no 2 Ou 3. 15 octobre 1909.
Anon. Lexique medico-militaire
Franco-Allemand de l’urodonal
Paris, Chatelain, n.d
(c.1918)
Anon. Manual of Splints and Appl
A field pocket Manual, underlining the
importance of the development of the Thomas splint, illustrating a number of
different splints in diagrammatic form, and with blank pages for users’
notes. An attached cloth tie holds the
book closed
Anon (Croix-Rouge de Belgique). Manuel de l'ambulancière
infirmière. Cours d'études 1915-1916
(
Contains a series of “lessons” on general
and specific topics, each followed by a set of questions. Our copy is No 113 of 250 numbered volumes
and was presented to Mme Berthe Levoz
Anon (Croix Rouge française / Union
des femmes de France). Manuel de
l’Infirmière Hospitalière
Paris,
Masson et Cie, 1914
General nursing manual originally produced prior to the
war
Anon. Memoranda on Some Medical Diseases in the
Mediterranean War Area, with some Sanitary Notes: 1916
A slim pocket reference book. There are some illustrations of infectious
agents etc but a notable inclusion is a series of fever charts, underlining the
clinical bias of diagnosis at the time
Anon. Memoranda on Medical Diseases in the Tropical
and Sub-tropical War Areas: 1919
An illustrated handbook covering a
wide range of tropical infections and parasitic infestations. Curiously our copy comes from the library of
the Patent Office, although it is unclear why they should have wanted it!
Anon. Nomenclature
Nosologique Generale
Paris,
Sous-Secrétariat d'Etat du Service de Santé militaire, 1917
Anon. Notes for Sanitary officers. British Expeditionary Force in
Anon. Principles of War Surgery. Based on the conclusions adopted at the
various interallied surgical conferences
Small pocket book summarising
“best practice” surgical management; facial injury did not figure in the
conferences, which were held at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, Paris, between 1916
and 1918 at the suggestion of Lloyd George.
He was aware that within the British army there were conflicts of
opinion especially between surgeons and bacteriologists, and considered that an
international meeting could reach consensus on good practice
Anon. Service de Santé
Militaire. Formulaire pharmaceutique des
hôpitaux militaires
Paris, Lavauzelle, 1918
Anon. Royaume des
Pays-Bas. Ministère de la Défense Nationale
(Direction du Service de Santé) Sixième Congrés International de Medecine et de
Pharmacie militaire
Paris, Ministere de la
Defense nationale, 1931
Volume 1 (official
reports) includes papers on psychoneuroses, haemostasis on the battlefield,
preservation of drug ampoules and the consequences of battle injury to the
teeth and lower jaw. The conference was
held at La Haye from 15-20th June 1931
Anon. The National Tribute to our Permanently
Disabled Soldiers and Sailors: the Past,
Present and Future of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops for Disabled Soldiers
and Sailors
Designed and carried out at the
Memorial Workshops, n.d, 1918
The
scheme started after the Boer War but was significantly expanded during WW1, with
premises engaged in various activities such as toymaking and printing
Anon. Vor zwanzig Jahren. Vol 1: Deutsche Arztrater im Weltkrieg.
Erlebnisse und Berichte Und neue Folge Vol 2: Von den Dardanellen zum Sues. Mit
Marineärzten im Weltkrieg durch die Türkei ( Twenty years ago. Vol 1: German medicine in the World War.
Real-life experiences and accounts with new additions. Vol 2: From Dardanelles
to
N.P.,
Ash
EL. Nerve in wartime, causes and cure of
nervous breakdown
Ashburn
PM. The Elements of Military Hygiene
Standard reference
work used by the AEF during WW1
Bainbridge
WS. Report on medical and surgical
developments of the war
Bainbridge
WS. Report on Third International
Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy,
This report covers a number of
organisational and medical issues based on great war experience. Reprinted from a series of articles in the
“Military Surgeon”, it records the third congress (the first was in
Bainbridge, WS. Report on Fourth International Congress of
military medicine and pharmacy.
Menasha (
Four main subjects
were reported upon at the Congress: Evacuation in moving warfare (pp 23-72);
Etiology and prophylaxis of influenza (including a communication by Colonel
Edgar E. Hume, US Army: "Influenza in the American Army during the World
War") (pp 72-124); Sequelae of traumatisms of the skull and their
treatment (pp 124-207); The arsenobenzols: methods of analysis and chemical
determination (pp 207-231).
Baird HHC. A
Government Committee of Enquiry and The Light Metal Artificial Leg
Privately published, 1923
Barham
P. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
New Haven & London,
Not
strictly a medical text, but an account of the “People’s Lunatics”, psychiatric
casualties of the war who were confined to asylums
Beatson
GT. How the Wounded-Disabled Soldier is
Treated Surgically at
Based on the methods employed in the
Bernard A. Hygiène aux armées,
cantonnements et tranchées
Paris, Jouve et Cie, 1916
Bielschowsky A. Blindenwesen und
Kriegsblinden-Fürsorge. Ein Vortrag (Care of blind war wounded. A report)
Binneveld JMW. From shell shock to combat stress: A
comparative history of military psychiatry (Trans. J O'Kane)
Blair
VP. Surgery and diseases of the Mouth
and Jaws
1st edition published in 1912; the revisions
for the 3rd edition were based on Blair’s experiences in France and
for the 4th, published after the war, additionally from his
experience on attachment at the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup
Bleker
J, Schmiedemach H-P. Medizin und Krieg
Vom Dilemma der Heilberufe 1865-1985 (Medicine and War: The dilemma of the
Caring Professions 1865-1985)
Fischer Verlag, 1987
A chapter relates to ethical and ideological
problems of the Great War
Bowlby
AA. The Hunter
Braun J. 20 Jahre
Westdeutsche Kriegshirn-Verletztenfuersorge (20 years of treating
Köln, 1935
Broca A. Chirurgie
de guerre et d'après-guerre
Brown
MW. Neuropsychiatry and the war. A
Bibliography with Abstracts
Bruhn
C. Die gegenwärtigen Behandlungswege der
Kieferschussverletzungen. Ergebnisse aus
dem Düsseldorfer Lazarett für Kieferverletzte (Kgl Reservelazarett).
(Management of gunshot injuries of the jaw, based on the experience of the Jaw
hospital in Düsseldorf)
Produced in 10 parts, the first
section is almost certainly the inspiration for Harold Gillies’s interest in
facial surgery. Pound (q.v.) refers to
Gillies having come across the work of Lindemann; he was a major contributor to
this book along with Hauptmeyer and Kühl.
Fully illustrated, it includes a series of stereo X-ray images
Call
AP. Nerves and the war
A
description for the lay person of “nerve” as much as of “nerves”
Camus J.
Physical and occupational re‑education of the maimed
London, Baillière, Tindall, 1918
Originally published as “Réeducation fonctionnelle et
réeducation professionnelle des blessés
(Paris,
Baillière, 1917)
Carberry
AD. The
Notes
that the NZ section at the Queen's Hospital Sidcup opened in 1918, having been
transferred from Walton-on-Thames
Carrel
A, Dehelly G. The Treatment of Infected
Wounds
A description of the Carrel-Dakin method
using antiseptic solutions. Also published by the
Castiaux A, Temmerman F.
Guide de l'Invalide. Encyclopedie des questions interessant les mutilés,
invalides de guerre et anciens combattants belges
Brussels, Guide de
l'Invalide, n.d. (1930)
History of F.N.I. (Federation Nationale de Militaires Mutiles et Invalides
de Guerre). Volume 1 is titled “F.N.I. et Oeuvres”; Volume 2 is
titled “Codification et commentaries”. A detailed survey of all the measures
taken by
Christine R. La
Première guerre mondiale: conséquences pathologiques pour les combattants
français du Front occidental
Paris, Barré & Dayez, 1997
Sanitary
affairs in the French Army on the West Front during the WW1.
Church
JR. The doctor's part: what happens to
the wounded in war
James Church had served in the
Clifford
WG. The ex‑soldier, by Himself
Collie
J. The management of neurasthenia and
allied disorders contracted in the Army
Craig
C. The Wasserman test
St Louis, C.V. Mosby Company, 1918
Although
a general text, the author was an army surgeon
Crile
GW. Notes on Military Surgery
Based
on notes compiled in 1917, this volume by George Crile is no more than a series
of notes – produced in a limited run (the pages are hand-cut)
Cummins
SL. Studies of influenza in hospitals of
the British Armies in
Curie
M. La Radiologie et La Guerre
Paris, Librairie Félix
Alcan, 1921
Illustrated textbook
of wartime radiology by Marie Curie
Dakin
HD, Dunham K. A Handbook on Antiseptics
Dearborn
FM (ed). American homeopathy in the
World War
Delorme
E. chirurgie de guerre: les fractures (War surgery: Fractures)
Paris, 1917
Delorme E (trans H de Méric). War Surgery.
Deus
P. Kompendium der Kriegschirurgie
(Compendium of war surgery)
Devin
G (ed). Die Deutschen Militaerapotheker
im Weltkriege. Ihre Tätigkeit und Erfahrungen (The German military pharmacist
during World War. Their actions and experiences)
Dix
KW. Psychologische Beobachtungen über
die Eindrücke des Krieges auf Einzelne wie auf die Masse (Psychological observations
on the consequences of the War on single persona and on the masses)
Langensalza, 1915
Dienemann
F. Briefe Eines Arztes über Ernährung an
Einen Laien (Letters from a doctor to a layman about nutrition)
Jence, Fischer, 1918
This book deals
particularly with nutrition in war.
Dolamore
WH. The Treatment in
Translated and abstracted from the German
literature.
Dudgeon
LS. Studies of bacillary dysentery occurring
in the British Forces in
Dumas
J, Carrel A (tr. AVS Lambert). Technic
of the Carrel method
Written
primarily for nurses, this is a summary version of Alexis Carrel’s book
(written with Delhelly) “Treatment of infected wounds” (q.v.). It is however written by Carrel’s wife, Anne
Eliot
Smith G, Pear TH. Shell shock and its
lessons.
The first published account of shellshock.
Fairley
H, Stewart CA. Cerebro-spinal fever
(Service Publication No 9)
Fauntleroy
AM. Report on the medico-military aspects of the European war, from
observations taken behind the allied armies in
Contains chapters on military organization
and equipment, the organization for the transportation and care of the sick and
wounded, base hospital work, and general field conditions. One of the
appendices discusses the French army ration.
Feiler
E. Der Zahnarzt im Felde (The Dentist on
the Battlefield)
Fenton
N. Shell shock and its aftermath
A scientific study of American “War
Neurotics”. Fenton was attached to Base
Hospital 117, AEF, and was Professor of Psychology at
Fischer G. Die erste zahnärztliche Hilfe im Felde; ein
zahnärztliches Vademecum für Aerzte. (Primary dental care on the battlefield: a
dentist’s vade-mecum for doctors)
Guido Fischer worked at the Marburg Dental Institute and Kriegslazarett
123, attached to the 4th Army
Fitzwilliams
DCL. A nursing manual for nurses and
nursing orderlies
Ford
JH. Details of Military Medical
Administration
Comprehensive
manual of instruction for managing a medical service, including chapters on
ambulances, hospitals and hospital ships, sanitation, evacuation procedures and
depots
Foster
M, Gaskell JF. Cerebro-spinal Fever
Based on the experience of the 1915
epidemic in Eastern Command & cases treated at the 1st
Fox
RF. Physical Remedies for Disabled
Soldiers
London, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1917
de Friedberg E.
Guide Pratique du Secouriste français – Infirmier volontaire
Paris,
Société des Secouristes français – Infirmiers volontaires, 1914
Freud S. et al.
Zur Psychoanalyse der Kriegsneurosen. (The Psychoanalysis of War
Neurosis). Diskussion gehalten auf dem
V. Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Kongress in
Leipzig/Wien, 1919
Fuchs
D. Praktische Hygiene und Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten im Felde
(Practical hygiene and the fight
against infectious diseases on the battlefield)
Wien, 1918
Garton
W. Electro-Therapeutics for Military
Hospitals
London, HK Lewis & Co, 1917
A
slim volume detailing the potential benefits of galvanic and faradic stimulation
and ionisation; the author recommends that such treatments should be supervised
by a radiology department
Giercke,
H. W. Der Kriegsverletzungen des Herzens
(Heart lesions in wartime)
Gilchrist
HL. A comparative study of world war casualties from gas and other weapons.
Gillies
H.D. Plastic Surgery of the Face
The first modern textbook of plastic surgery,
with a chapter contributed by Wade on the development of anaesthesia. Profusely
illustrated with photographs and diagrams, many of the originals of which are
at Queen Mary’s Sidcup in the Archives
Gillies
Sir H.,
A “coffee table” book with a curiously
whimsical approach, describing Gillies’s surgical work from 1916. Although full of technical points, it remains
readable (and interesting) to the layman, not least because of its style. The
anaesthetic section is contributed by Ivan Magill, who with
Gilman
S. Making the Body Beautiful. A cultural history of aesthetic surgery
Princeton & Oxford,
A thorough examination of the
development of “aesthetic” surgery, placing the reconstructive work of WW1 in
perspective. The experience of Gillies,
Morestin and Joseph is outlined
Golen
H de. Scandales medicaux pendant la guerre
Paris, Maurice d’Hartoy,
1933
Gordon
MH. Cerebrospinal fever: Studies in the
bacteriology, preventive control, and specific treatment of... among the
military forces, 1915‑19
Gordon-Taylor
G. The Abdominal Injuries of Warfare
Based on WW1 experience in Casualty Clearing
Stations
Gray
HMW. The Early Treatment of War Wounds
Colonel Gray served in
Guichard E-L-J. Le
paludisme à bord des navires de guerre Kleber et Dupleix (Malaria on the
warships Kleber and Dupleix)
The author was doctor
(physic
Guillain G, Barré JA. Travaux Neurologiques de Guerre
Guy’s
Hospital Reports: Vol LXX (War Memorial Number)
The last of an annual series of volumes which
began in 1836, the “Reports” were replaced by a quarterly publication. This volume contains portraits and brief
obituaries of Guy’s men and women who died in the Great War, a records of
honours and medals (including one VC, to Capt H. Ackroyd RAMC) and a series of
articles by Guy’s men of different aspects of medicine and surgery. These include an excellent summary of the developing
role of Casualty Clearing Stations, an illustrated chapter on war neuroses and
a chapter on dentistry and dental surgery
Haldane
ES. The British nurse in peace and war
Hanes
EL. Minds and nerves of soldiers
Harper
G. Vocational re-education for war
cripples in
Harris
G. The Redemption of the disabled; a
study of programmes of rehabilitation for the disabled of war and industry
From
the series “Problems of war and of
reconstruction” (ed Francis Wickware).
It covers worldwide experience in the first 12 chapters
Hatt
CW. The future of the disabled soldier
Herber C. Die Frakturen der
Kiefer. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kriegschirurgie und mit Einschluß
der technischen Methodik (Jaw fractures: with particular reference to war
surgery, and with attention to surgical technique)
Herbert AS.
Military Physical Orthopaedics.
Arthur Herbert was in charge of the NZ Government Baths and Sanatorium
at Rotorua, which was taken over for military use and concentrated on the
physical rehabilitation of post-operative patients. It is illustrated with photographs of a
number of splints and other devices – one of which is a pair of thick handles
for cutlery fashioned from dried corn cobs
Hezel
O.et al. Die Kriegsbeschädigungen des
Nervensystems. (Damage to the Nervous System on the Battlefield)
Hirschfeld
M. The sexual history of the World war, from reports collected by the Institute
for Sexual Science.
Originally released as
Sittengeschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, (Hanau, Müller & Kiepenheuer, 1929)
His
W, Weintraud W (ed.) Verhandlungen der
ausserordentlichen Tagung des DT. Kongresses für innere Medizin in Warschau 1-2
mai 1916. Kriegsseuchen und
Kriegskrankheiten. (Debates from the extraordinary convention of the DT
Congress for internal medicine in Warsaw, 1-2 May 1916: infections and medical
conditions)
Contains
contributions by Hoffmann (Schutz des Heeres gegen Cholera - Protection of the
army against cholera), Wenckebach (Ueber Herzerkrankungen bei Kriegsteilnehmen
– Heart conditions in War participants), Brauer (Über das Fleckfieber - On the
spotted fever), Juergens (Epidemiologia des Fleckfiebers - Epidemiology of
spotted fever), Krehl (Der Abdominaltyphus im Kriegs - Abdominal typhus in the war), Huenermann (Über
typhusschutzimpfung – Typhus vaccination), Stintzing (Paratyphus), Matthes und
Kruse (Über die Ruhr - Dysentery), Hirsch (Nierenentzuendung im Felde -
Nephritis in the field)
Hogge JM, Garside
TH. War Pensions and Allowances
Comprehensive description of pensions, with a list of wartime committees and
paymasters
Howson
G. Handbook for the limbless.
Hughes
B, Banks HS. War Surgery. From Firing Line to Base
Notable for a series of colour plates, very
badly drawn, but showing a number of soldier patients with happy smiles— and
cigarettes. Despite this, it is the
definitive manual on major battlefield surgery, with useful sections on medical
conditions and infection
Hull
AJ. Surgery in war
Alfred Keogh in the preface describes this as
a “taking stock” book. Notably missing
is any account of the management of facial injury
Hunt HL.
Plastic surgery of the head, face and neck
A
number of WW1 cases are illustrated, with attributions to Dufourmentel, Gillies
and Pickerill
Arthur Hurst was a
physic
Hutt
CW. The future of the disabled soldier
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Surgeon General’s Office, 1923 |
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Administration
American Expeditionary Forces, 1927 Numerous illustrations, and a full list of US operated
hospitals and their personnel. It
refers (p1038) to a “short course in reconstructive facial surgery”, offered
in |
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Finance
and Supply, 1928 With illustrations
of equipment, ambulances etc |
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Activities
Concerning Mobilization Camps and Ports of
Embarkation, 1928 |
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Military
Hospitals in the |
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Sanitation,
1926 |
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Training,
1927 |
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Field
Operations, 1925 |
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Communicable
and Other Diseases, 1928 |
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Neuropsychiatry,
1929 |
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Surgery
Part 1, General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, 1927 |
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Surgery
Part 2, Empyema, Maxillofacial Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, 1924 |
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Acute
Respiratory Diseases, Gas Gangrene following War Wounds, 1929 |
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Part
1, Physical Reconstruction and Vocational Education |
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2, the Army Nurse Corps, 1927 |
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Medical
Aspects of Gas Warfare, 1926 |
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Statistics
Part 1, Army Anthropology, 1921 |
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Statistics
Part 2, Medical and Casualty Statistics, 1925 |
The American equivalent of the “Official
History”, prepared under the direction of Major General M.W. Ireland, Surgeon
General of the Army. An additional volume on the physical condition of enlisted
men was also produced Love &
Ireland
MW (intr). Report on Fourth
International Congress of military medicine and pharmacy.
Menasha (
Detailed report in
English of the Congress, with list of delegates, reports, communications and
discussions. Five subjects were reported
upon at the Congress, including three having some connections with WW1:
Evacuation in moving warfare; aetiology and prophylaxis of influenza (including
a communication by Colonel Edgar E. Hume, US Army: “Influenza in the American
Army during the World War”; Dental communications: and one directly connected
with WW1:- Sequelae of traumatisms of the skull and their treatment (pp 124 to
207)
Jeanbrau, E. et al. Chirurgie reparatrice et orthopedique
Publ.sous la direction de E.Jeanbrau, P.Nove-Jusserand, L.Ombredanne et
P.Desfosses
Paris,
Masson 1920
A 2 volume surgical textbook with
a substantial section (pp416-520) on facial surgery, much of which is derived
from L’Ombrédanne’s experience and a considerable amount relates to WW1
Jones
R. Note on Military Orthopaedics.
London, Cassell & Co (for the
British Red Cross) 1917 (reprinted 1918)
Sir Robert Jones was an orthopaedic surgeon
of considerable ability and is considered one of the fathers of British
orthopaedic surgery. Originally enlisting as a lieutenant, it was not until a
number of American surgeons had asked for introductions to the “head of army
orthopaedics” that he was plucked from obscurity and rapidly promoted.
Joseph
J. Nasenplastik und Sonstige Gesichtsplastik Nebst
Einem Anhang Uber Mammaplastik und Einige Weitere Operationen Aus Dem Gebiete
Der Ausseren Korperplastik (Rhinoplasty and facial plastic surgery with a
supplement on mammaplasty and other operations in the field of plastic surgery
of the body)
Jacques
Joseph is perhaps the most notable German plastic surgeon of the early 20th
Century. During WW1 he was Director of
the Division of Facial Plastic Surgery at the Charité Hospital, Berlin where he
operated on numerous war casualties; this book, published well after the war,
distils some of that experience. His
written work largely disappeared under the restrictions on Jews in the
1930s. Technically superb, this book is
perhaps more rigorous in its approach than Gillies’ “Plastic Surgery of the
Face” (and considerably more thorough
than the almost contemporary large format – and expensive – book produced by
Esser) but relatively unknown in the English-speaking surgical world of the
time
Jungmann, Paul. Das wolhynische Fieber.
Treatise on Typhus, known in
Kazanj
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins
Co, 1959
Although
out of the usual time frame this (substantial) book is included because it
draws “from vast experience in World Wars I and II”
Keen
WW. The Treatment of War Wounds.
William Keen was a surgeon in the American
Civil War as well as in the 1914-18 conflict..
Harvey Cushing contributed an account of his techniques for managing
head wounds
Keith
A. Menders of the Maimed
Written
by Arthur Keith, Hunter
Keogh
A (ed). Medical and Surgical Therapy
6 volumes as follows: Vol. I: (1918) Infectious Diseases; Vol. II:
(1919) Neuroses; Vol. III: (1919) Wounds; Vol. IV: (1919) Fractures; Vol. V:
(1919) Bones and Joints; Vol. VI: (1919) Electro-Diagnosis and Lung Wounds,
Mental and Locomotor Disabilities
Klapp
R, Schröder H. Die
Unterkieferschussbrüche und ihre Behandlung (Gunshot wounds of the lower jaw
and their management)
Klughardt
A. Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen bei der
Behandlung von Kieferbrüchen insbesondere bei der Feldhändlung der
Kieferschussverletzungen (Observations and experience of the management of jaw
fractures with particular reference to gunshot injury)
Knox
R. Radiography and Radiotherapeutics
In 2
volumes; Vol 1 is Radiography, including details of military applications and
apparatus suitable for field hospitals.
Knox worked at, and drew his experience for the books from, the 4th
London general Hospital
Kuhnt
H. Plastische Operationen an Lidern und
Bindehaut bei Kriegsverletzten (Plastic surgery to eyelids and conjunctiva
after War lesions)
Bonn, 1922
Küttner H. Verletzungen des Gehirns
(Brain Injuries)
Stuttgart / Enke (Coll. Neue Deutsche Chirurgie), 1920
In 3 volumes
Lagarde LA . Gunshot injuries
Reprinted
by the
Larousse Médical de Guerre
Paris,
Librairie Larousse, 1917
An illustrated encyclopaedia, arranged
alphabetically
Lawley
A. A Message from
Sir
Arthur Lawley was Red Cross Commissioner, reporting in early 1917 on the
welfare of British troops in the region
Lawson
A. War blindness at St. Dunstan's
Sir Arthur Lawson, Director of St Dunstan’s,
was himself blind
Lebedinsky J, Virenque M.
Prothèse et Chirurgie Cranio-Maxillo-Faciale
Paris, JB Baillière et
fils, 1918
Based on the authors’ experience of some 700 cases at the
4th
Le
Bon, G. The psychology of the Great War
Leese
P. Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and
the British Soldiers of the First World War
New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002
Léger-Dorez H.
Traité de Prosthèse Dentaire
Léger-Dorez served at the Centre de
Médecine Générale, 13th Region.
The Ash company was a supplier of dental equipment
Lelean
PS. Sanitation in war
Lewis
T. Reports upon Soldiers Returned as
Cases of 'Disordered Action of the Heart, (DAH) or Valvular Disease of the
heart (VDH)
A condition which often afflicted troops,
otherwise called Da Costa's or effort syndrome, nowadays considered to be a
feature of post-traumatic stress disorder
Lexer
Lewis
T. The soldier's heart and the effort
syndrome
Lloyd
L. Lice and their menace to man: with a
chapter on trench fever
Written for the “general reader”. The chapter on trench fever is contributed by
Major W Byam, RAMC
Love AG,
A monstrous volume of over 1600 pages,
mainly tables
MacCallum WG. The Pathology of the Pneumonia in the
New York, Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, 1919.
Monograph No.10, describing what is attributed to measles
pneumonia, but may well be bronchopneumonia secondary to influenza (Spanish
‘flu). Illustrated with colour and
b&w plates of pathology slides and specimens
MacCurdy JT. War
neuroses.
An American account. Foreword by Rivers of Craiglockhart.
McKenzie
RT. Reclaiming the maimed: A handbook of
physical therapy
A summary of therapy techniques of value in
treating the disabled serviceman, including a section on the masking of facial
deformity. After the war Tait McKenzie
became preoccupied with depicting in sculpture the “typical physique”, in
Nietzschean style
Maclean
H. Report to the Committee on War
Nephritis. An investigation into the
Incidence of Albuminuria and Casts in British Soldiers during Training and the
Relationship of this Condition to War Nephritis
London, M.P. & E. Co Ltd, 1918
Maclean
H. Albuminuria and war nephritis among
British troops in
A
summary of the strategy of dealing with the disabled ex-serviceman, including
an historical perspective and study of work in
Makins
GH. Gunshot injuries of the arteries
Ibid. Gunshot injuries to the blood vessels. Founded on experience gained in
New York, William Wood & Co,
1919
Mackintosh
DJ. Construction and management of a
general hospital
Edinburgh, Hodge, 1916
Maltz
M. New Faces, New Futures. Rebuilding Character with Plastic Surgery
Written for a lay audience, this
book comments on the influence of the Great War on technical development and
asks searching questions about the coming misery of the Second World War –
prescient in historical terms, but the doom-laden prediction of casualty
numbers was not to be fulfilled because the war was to be so different in
conduct from its predecessor
Ibid. Evolution of Plastic Surgery
A general study of plastic surgery from its
origins in antiquity. Contains a section
on the plastic surgery developments of the Great War
Marion G.
Chirurgie de Guerre (War Surgery). Indications Générales du Traitement
des plaies de guerre.
Paris, Maloine, 1916
Manual of medicaments, splints etc
Marchet
G. Die Versorgung der Kriegsinvaliden
und ihrer hinterbliebenen
(Care of war invalids and their
dependents)
Warnsdorf, Verlag Ed. Strache, 1915
Marr
HC. Psychoses of the war, including
neurasthenia and shell shock
Martinier P, Lemerle G (tr. Lawson Whale H). Injuries of the face and jaw and their
repair; and the treatment of fractured jaws
New York, William Wood & Co,
1917
The
book focuses on prosthetic reconstruction which was much practised in
Mason
CF. A complete handbook for the Hospital
Corps of the U.S. Army and Navy and state military forces
New York, William Wood and Company,
1916
A
comprehensive manual for training and education, including some 90 pages of
drill regulations
Maxwell
WN. A psychological retrospect of the
Great War
The
cover note indicates that the book is written “from the point of view of a
moderate behaviourist, and offers an explanation of various psychological
elements which are operative in warfare”
Maxwell‑Lefroy
H. Measures for avoidance and
extermination of flies, mosquitoes, lice and other vermin
Medical
Research Committee. Annual Reports 1914-1919
The
MRC was founded in 1912 and later became the Medical Research Council. Its summary of activities for the war years
contains a considerable amount of the research conducted under military medical
auspices
Medical
War Manuals.
No 1: Vedder EB. Sanitation for
Medical Officers
No 2:
Goodwin TH. Notes for Army
Medical Officers
No 3:
No 4: Military Orthopaedic Surgery (prepared by the
Orthopaedic Council)
No 5: McDill JR. Lessons from the enemy: How Germany cares for
her war disabled
No 6: Laboratory Methods of the
No 7: de Tarnowsky G. Military Surgery of the Zone of the Advance
No 8: Loeb HW. Military Surgery of the Ear, Nose and Throat (numerous references are appended, including
a number of reports by Morestin)
No 9:
McCombe J, Menzies AF. Medical
Service at the Front
Pocket books for
officers in the field; the first is interspersed with blank sheets of lined
paper so that notes can be kept
Misch
J, Rumpel C. Die Kriegsverletzungen der
Kiefer und Angrenzenden Teile. Ein Kurzgefasstes Lehrbuch für Zahnarzte und
Ärzte zum Gebrauch im Felde und in der Heimat.
(War injuries of the jaw and adjoining parts. A dentist's and doctor's
concise lesson book for use on the battlefield and on the home front
A
profusely illustrated textbook on jaw injuries, with numerous examples of
superficial surgery and splinting
Military
Medical Manuals (general editor Surgeon General Sir Alfred Keogh)
A series of ready reference works translated
from the French. The advertisement
sheets state “Each translation has been made by a practised hand, and is edited
by a specialist in the branch of surgery or medicine covered by the volume....
Each volume in the series is complete in itself, while the whole will form a
comprehensive picture of the medicine and surgery of the Great War”. They were
published by Masson et Cie in
Abadie G. (
Armand-Delille P, Abrami P, Paisseau G,
Lemaire H. (Ed Ross D). Malaria:
Clinical and haematological features.
Principles of treatment
Babinski J, Froment J (ed Farquhar Buzzard
E). Hysteria or Pithiatism and Reflex
Nervous Disorders in the Neurology of War
An account, with bibliography, of war-studies
on hysteria and of the authors' own work
Benisty A- Mme (ed Farquhar Buzzard E). The clinical forms of nerve lesions
Benisty A- Mme (ed Farquhar Buzzard E). The treatment and repair of nerve
lesions (Fr. “Traitement et Restauration des Lesions des Nerfs”)
Mme Bénisty (née
Athanasiu) published her doctoral thesis “Les Lésions de la zone Rolandique”
(q.v.) in 1918
Bertein P, Nimier
A. Les premières heures du Blessé de
guerre. Du trou d’obus au poste de secours
(the first hours of a war casualty from
injury to aid post)
Bourgeois H, Sourdille H. (Ed Dundas Grant J)
War otitis and war deafness.
Broca A. (trans Renfrew White J, ed Elmslie
RC). The After-Effects of Wounds of the Bones
and Joints
Broca A and DuCroquet J (trans /ed. Elmslie
RC). Artificial limbs
Carrel A, Dehelly G (trans Child H) The Treatment of Infected Wounds
A description of the
Carrel-Dakin method using antiseptic solutions. In French entitled “Le traitement
des plaies infectées”. Also published in the
Chatelin C, de Martel D (ed Burghard
FF). Wounds of the skull and brain
Courtois-Suffit MM, Giroux R (ed Bruce D,
Golla F). Abnormal forms of tetanus
~Desfosses P,
Charles-Robert. La Suspension dans la
Traitement des Fractures. Appareils
Anglo-Américains (Suspension in fracture management. Anglo-American equipment)
~Grégoire R,
Courcoux. Plaies de la Plèvre et du
Poumon (Injuries of pleura and lung)
Imbert L, Réal P (ed Colyer JF). Fractures of the lower jaw
Lagrange F (trans Child C). Fractures of the orbit and injuries of the
eye in war
French edition “Les
Fractures de l'Orbite par projectiles de Guerre”, 1917
~Lepine J. Troubles mentaux de guerre (Psychiatric disorders of war)
~Leri A.
Commotions et Émotions de guerre (Shock and emotion in war)
Leriche R (ed Burghard FF). The treatment of fractures (2 vols; 1:
Fractures involving joints; 2: Fractures of the shaft
de Martel T. Blessures du Crâne. Traitement opératoire des plaies du crane
(Operative treatment of cranial injuries)
The English version was co-edited by Chatelin (vide
supra)
Ombrédanne A, Ledoux-Lebard M (ed Reid
AD). Localisation and extraction of
projectiles
French edition (Localisation et
extraction des projectiles, 1918).
Contains a useful summary of radiological techniques and risks
~Policard A. L’Évolution de la Plaie de guerre. Mecanismes biologiques fondamentaux (The
evolution of war wounds. Fundamental biological mechanisms)
~Ravaud P.
Syphilis. Paludisme. Amibiase.
Cures initiales et blanchiment (Syphilis, malaria and amoebiasis;
initial cures and hygiene)
Roussy G, Lhermitte J (trans Christopherson
WB, ed Aldren Turner W). The Psychoneuroses of War
A discussion in the
main of shell-shock. Though the French
had no word for this condition they were assiduous in treating it and claimed a
98 per cent recovery rate. The French version appears to have different authors
(Roussy, Boisseau & d’Oelsnitz)
Sencert L. (Ed Burghard FF). Wounds of the blood vessels
Thibierge G. (Ed Marshall CF). Syphilis and the Army
The editor remarks
that current British treatment was intravenous injection of a salvarsan
'substitute' combined with intra-muscular injections of mercury.
~Vallat. Accidents du Travail des ouvriers des usines
et établissements de la guerre (Work accidents in factories and other war
establishments)
Vincent H, Muratet L (trans / ed Rolleston
JD). Typhoid fevers and paratyphoid
fevers
Vincent H, Muratet L (ed Low GC). Dysenteries, Cholera and
exanthematic typhus
French edition “Fièvres Typhoïdes et
Paratyphoïdes (Paris, Masson et cie Editeurs / Libraires de l’Academie de
Medicine, 1917)
~Zimmern A, Perol P. Electrodiagnostic
de guerre (Electrodiagnosis in war)
Paris,
Masson et Cie, 1917
A manual of electrodiagnostic tests for the diagnosis of nerve injuries
etc
Ministry
of Munitions. An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
Reprinted for the American Red Cross
Möhring,
B. Zur Indikation und Technik der Unterkiefer-Resektionsprothese (Indications
for and techniques of resection and reconstruction of the mandible)
Morelli E (tr.
Based
on the author’s experience at Ospedaletto 79, attached to the 11th
Corps of the Ital
Morin
J. Contribution à l’étude de la ration alimentaire du soldat Suisse
Published under the auspices of the
University of Lausanne’s Institute of Hygiene and Parasitology, this thesis
examines the rations provided to officers and men of the Second Division and
compares them with those of the French, Ital
Mott
FW. War neurosis and shell shock
Muntsch
O. Leitfaden der Pathologie und Therapie der Kampfgaserkrankungen (Summary of
pathology and therapy of diseases caused by poison gas)
Murard
L, Zylberman P. L'hygiène dans la République: la santé publique en France ou l'utopie
contrariée : 1870-1918
Paris, Fayard 1996
Myers
CS. Shell shock in
National
Health Insurance Medical Research Committee.
Bacteriological Studies in the Pathology and Preventive Control of
Cerebro-spinal Fever among the Forces during 1915 and 1916.
A study of the
features of, method of spread and investigation of meningococcal meningitis,
which threatened an epidemic among recruits in 1915. Detailed descriptions of preventative
measures, and photographs of the mobile laboratory
Neal
JH. Field Ambulance Organisation and
Administration
Nichols
TB. Organisation, Strategy and
Tactics. The Army Medical Services in
War
Reference work produced, as it happens, just
in time for the Second World War but largely derived from medical experience in
the First.
Oppenheim
H. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der
Kriegsverletzungen des peripherischen Nervensystems (Contribution on peripheral
nerve injuries in war)
A series of pocket sized books similar in
purpose to the Military medical Manuals series, but all originally in
English. Published jointly by the
Bathe Rawling L. Surgery of the Head. 1915
Designed as a text
for surgeons at CCS and base hospitals. The
author writes “In all probability the present war will evidence a higher ratio
of head cases as compared with the rest of the body”.
Dupuy GM.
The Stretcher Bearer: A Companion to the R.A.M.C. Training Book
In landscape format,
it differs from the others in the series.
138 photographs illustrate stretcher drill, which must have been largely
unnecessary under trench conditions
Jones R.
Injuries of the joints (2nd ed. 1918)
Harris W.
Nerve injuries and shock.1915
Hey
Horder TJ. Cerebro-spinal fever. 1915
Huggins GM.
Amputation stumps and their treatment. 1918
Keogh Murphy J. Wounds of the thorax in war. 1915
Macdonald R St.J. Field Sanitation. 1918
The author was Sanitary Officer for the CAMC
Morison R.
BIPP Treatment of War Wounds. 1918
Bipp was an
antiseptic paste composed of iodoform, bismuth subnitrate and liquid paraffin,
which was applied to open wounds and allowed to dry out before being peeled
off, supposedly taking the infection with it.
Morison R,
Power d'A.
Wounds in war: Their treatment and results. 1915
Ramsay AM, Grant JD, Lawson Whale H, West
CE. Injuries of the eyes, nose, throat
and ears.1915
Lawson Whale, co-author of the section on
the nose and throat, was at Epsom when the book was produced, having been at No
13 General Hospital; he was subsequently posted to Sidcup.
Shera AG.
Vaccines and Sera in Military and Civil
Squire JE.
Medical Hints (Oxford War Primers series). 1915
Chapters on the
management of infectious diseases, rheumatism, frostbite, body parasites and
malingering among others. Concludes with
a section entitled “Discipline in Hospitals”
Stewart P, Evans AH. Nerve injuries and their treatment. 1916
Page
CM. A Medical field service handbook
OWP series 1918
Parreidt
J. Handbuch der Zahnersatzkunde: mit
einschluss der Technik des kiefer-, gaumen- und nasenersatzes (Handbook of
dental reconstruction and the techniques of jaw, palate and nasal prosthetics)
A substantial text on dental
reconstructive work, with numerous illustrations of splints, prostheses and
manufacturing equipment
Paeuw L de. La
réeducation professionnelle des soldats mutiles et estropies
Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1917:
Description of the work of the Ecole Nationale Belge des
Mutilés de la Guerre, with sites at Sainte-Adresse, Port-Villez and Mortain,
illustrated with numerous photographs of the occupational workshops
Pellat S. Petits
Jeux pour nos Blessés
Paris, Delagrave, 1915
Whether
the games described in this book would lift the spirits of the injured and help
in getting them back to the front remains questionable
Penhallow
DP. Military surgery
Pfaff
HW, Schönbeck F. Kursus der
Zahnärztlichen Kriegschirurgie und Ontgentechnik (Course on war dental surgery
and radiography)
Pickerill
HP. Facial Surgery
Edinburgh, Livingstone, 1924
Pickerill led the New Zealand
Section at the Queen's Hospital Sidcup, and many of the cases illustrated in
the book are from the NZ notes now in the Gillies Archive (The Macalister
Collection). The book is based on Pickerill’s
MS thesis for the
Plowman
CF, Dearden WF. Fighting the fly peril
Porot
A, Hesnard A. Psychiàtre de guerre. Etude clinique
Paris, Alcan, 1919
Porter,
WT. Shock at the Front.
Research on the causes and cure of traumatic
shock during World War I
Prakken
H. Beitrage zum Studium von Genese und
praktischem Verschluss der Kieferhohle- mundhohle-verbindunen unter besonderer
Berücksichtigung der Kriegsverletzung (Contribution to the study of War
injuries of the mouth and jaw and the development of closure techniques)
Joure (
Hendrik Prakken’s
dissertation for the University of Münster, illustrated with his own drawings
and photographs
Prentiss
AM. Chemicals in War. A treatise on
chemical warfare
McGraw-Hill, 1937
Prinzing
F. Epidemics resulting from wars
A
summary of historical records from before the Thirty years War to the Balkan
conflicts of 1913. While outside the
usual timescale of this bibliography the book gives an interesting historical
perspective, although rather laden with numbers of casualties and light on
management
RAMC
Training Manual
HMSO, 1911
The standard reference work for the RAMC,
including drills and exercise, first aid, nursing and cooking advice.
Ranke
K.E. Richtlinien der
Tuberkulosebekaempfung nach den Krieg für Beamtete Ärzte (Guidelines for doctors in charge for
fighting against tuberculosis after the War)
Wuerbur /
Rea RL. Chest
radiography at a casualty clearing station
Read
C.S. Military psychiatry in peace and
war
Reid
F. Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment
and Recovery in Britain 1914-1930
London & New York, Continuum,
2010
A
detailed study of the subject with much information about how sufferers dealt
with their own problems and the perceptions of others
Rivers WH. Instinct and the Unconscious. A contribution to a biological theory of the
psycho-neuroses
Rivers notes in the Preface “The general aim
of the book is to put into a biological setting the system of psycho-therapy
which came to be generally adopted in
Rivers WH. Conflict and Dream
The classic text by
Rivers, published after his untimely death with a foreword and explanatory
notes by Eliot Smith. It is based on a
lecture series given by Rivers in
Roberts
J. War surgery of the face. A treatise
on plastic restoration after facial surgery.
New York, William Wood & Co, 1919
Ross Sir R (ed). Observations on Malaria, by medical officers
of the army and others
A series of reports
of malaria management and related matters such as the excretion of quinine in
urine and the effect of this drug on the development of malarial parasites
Roth
PB. Notes on military orthopaedics
Salmon TW. The care
and treatment of mental diseases and war neuroses : ("shell shock")
in the British Army
Sauerbruchs
F. Die Willkruerlich Bewaegbare
Kuenstliche Hand. Eine Anleitung für Chirurgen und Techniker. (The artificial
moving hand. Advice to surgeons and technic
Sauerbruch's
hand was the first really satisfactory arm and hand prosthesis.
van
Schelven T. Oorlogsneurologie. Ervaringen over verwondingen van het zenuwgestel
en over neurosen (War neurology. Experiments on injuries on nerves and on
neuroses)
von
Schjerning O (ed.). Handbuch der
Ärtzlichen Erfahrungen im Weltkriege 1914/18 (Handbook of medical experience of
the World War)
The
definitive work, in 9 parts, from German WW1 experience, published in
Vols I & II. Payr E, Franz C (eds). Chirurgie, 1922
Vol III.
Krehl L (ed). Innere Medizin
(Internal medicine),1921
Vol IV.
Bonhoeffer K (ed). Geistes- und
Nerven-Krankheiten (Psychology & Neurology), 1921
Vol V.
Axenfeld T (ed). Augenheilkunde,
1922
This
manual covered new results of War ophthalmology.
Vol VI.
Vos O, Kill
Vol. VII.
Hoffmann W (ed). Hygiene, 1922
Vol VIII.
Aschoff L (ed). Pathologie
Anatomie, 1921
Vol IX.
Grashey R (ed). Roentgenologie,
1922
Schloessmann H. Der Nervenschussschmerz (Nerve pain due to bullet wounds)
Schmidt
W. Forensisch-Psychiatrische Erfahrungen
im Kriege (Forensic psychiatry experience in war)
Volume
5 of a series of neurology, psychiatry and psychology handbooks
Scotland
T, Hays S (eds).
War Surgery 1914-1918
Solihill, UK, Helion Books, 2012
Comprehensive guide to surgical advances and practice in
the war. There is a chapter on facial surgery
contributed by John Holmes
Seifert
E. Lehrbuch der Chirurgie des Kopfes und
Halses Für Zahnärzte (Textbook of head and neck surgery for dentists)
München, JF Lehmannsverlag, 1921 (2nd
ed 1931)
Volume 11 in a series of dental
texts (series editor Professor HH Rebel, Göttingen)
Shephard
B. A War of Nerves. Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994
A
comprehensive survey of war neurosis from shellshock to post-traumatic stress
disorder. WW1 is covered in detail; an excellent introduction, as it is not too
technical
Shera
AG. Vaccines and sera: their clinical
value in Military and Civil
OWP series, 1918
Shipley
AE. The minor Horrors of War
Reference work on lice, fleas, flies, leeches
etc— not, in the trenches, very “minor” at all.
Shipley
AE. More Minor Horrors
Cockroaches,
mosquitoes, rats, mice etc. Some amusing
quotations
Silberstein Adolf
(ed). Ergebnisse der Kriegsinvalidenfürsorge
im KGL Orthopaed. Reserve-Lazarett Nuernberg (Results of the care of war
invalids in the Royal Orthopaedic Reserve military hospital, Nürnberg).
Nürnberg / Würzburg / Kubitzsh, 1916
Slade
GH. Two sticks.
Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires.
Vocabulaire français-arabe a l'usage des infirmìères de la Societé
Française de Secours aux Blessés Militaires
Paris, 1913
In the same series
appeared Vocabulaire français-italien, Vocabulaire français-anglais and
Vocabulaire français-espagnol
Southard
EE. Shell‑shock and other
neuropsychiatric problems presented in five hundred and eighty‑nine case
histories from the war literature, 1914‑ 1918
Nearly 1000 pages, with an extensive bibliography
Spire C, Lombardy P. Précis d'organisation et de fonctionnement du
service de santé en temps de guerre.
Paris, Lavauzelle, 1925
Staige
Davis J. Plastic Surgery: its Principles And Practice
Philadelphia, P. Blakiston Son &
Co., 1919
Strong
RP et al. Trench fever.
A detailed research treatise describing
experiments performed on volunteers which proved that trench fever was
transmitted by lice
Strong
RP. Typhus fever, with particular
reference to the Serb
Surgeon
General’s Office (USA). Principles of
War Surgery, based on conclusions adopted at the various interallied surgical
conferences
A tiny pocket book summarising
“best practice” from four conferences held at the
Surgeon
General's Office. Abstracts Of War
Surgery: An abstract of the war literature of general surgery that has been
published since the declaration of war in 1914
St. Louis, C.V. Mosby Co., 1918
General topics include "Wound
Infection and Treatment", "Tetanus", "Gas Gangrene",
Abdomen", “Chest",
"Cardiovascular Surgery", "Joints", "Fractures",
"Burns", "Anesthesia in Warfare", "Trench-Foot",
"Foreign Bodies", "Peripheral Nerve Injuries" and
"Jaws and Face". The articles
have been abstracted from a number of medical journals of all nationalities
Sutton
S. The fitting out and administration of
a Naval Hospital Ship
Taylor,
CRS. The psychology of the Great War
London, Secker, 1915
Tenret F. Traite de Secours d'urgence aux Blessés
Marcinelle (
Thomason
WT. Papers based on the 1914 War Medical
Records Section. Compilation and Usage
Thourén
G. Tandläkarnes sanitetsverksamhet under krig. (The work of the dentist and his
measures for hygiene in war)
Stockholm, 1915
Tinel J. Les
blessures des nerfs
Paris, Masson &
Cie, 1916.
Gunshot wounds of peripheral nerves were a
common feature of World War I, as indeed of all wars. The effects of such wounds were studied most
closely by Tinel. The book is presented by anatomical region. Preface by Déjerine
Topley
WWC. A report on the probable proportion
of enteric infections among the undiagnosed febrile cases invalided from the
Western Front since October 1916
Tournade
A. La Rééducation professionelle des mutilés de la guerre. Rôle du Service de Santé
Paris,
L. Fournier, 1917
Tournade A. La
pratique de l'hygiene en campagne (Battlefield hygiene)
Paris, Fournier, 1918
Tuttle
AD. Handbook for the Medical Soldier
Baltimore, William Wood, 1927
Underhill
FP. Lethal War Gases. Physiology and Experimental Treatment;
Vaughan E. La
Réeducation professionelle des Soldats Aveugles
Paris, Imprimerie
Levé, 1915
Vedder
EH. The medical aspects of chemical
warfare
Waldmann
A, Hoffmann W. Lehrbuch der
Militärhygiene
Wallace
CS. War surgery of the abdomen
A comprehensive review of what might be
expected at operation, with many statistics.
The most horrifying of these is the overall mortality of more than 50%
of casualties reaching an operating hospital
Wallace
CS, Fraser J. Surgery at a casualty
clearing station
Ward VH (ed Newell
MJ(. Ex dentibus Ensis. A History of the Army Dental Service
Sutherland, Method Publishing Co
(for RADC), 1997
Chapter
covering the dental and facial work of the Service in WW1. The RADC itself was not established until
1921
Warthin
AS, Weller CV. The Medical Aspects of
Mustard Gas Poisoning
Published after the start of the Second World
War, this textbook is based on the authors’ experience at the 3rd
Webster
RW. Paper Work of the Medical Department
of the
Little
can be said except that all departments develop a paperwork system – and this
is it. Illustrations of all forms in use
Webb AG. Notes
on War Pensions
The frontispiece lists the title differently
as "Notes for Branch Secretaries: No 1. Great War Pensions (other ranks).
The booklet sets out entitlements and current values
Weil GP. Le Role
du Pharmacien dans la guerre des Gaz
A
short summary of the pharmacology of gas warfare, including sections on
production, actions, detection, neutralisation, protection and treatment
Whitehead I.
Doctors in the Great War
A
study of the development of medical services before and during the war
Wicherink
JW. Na den Oorlog. Beschouwingen
wenschen, wenken op hygienisch gebied (After the War. Reflections on hygienic
measurements to be taken in wartime)
Wilbrand
H, Sänger A. Die Verletzungen der Sehbahnen des Gehirns mit besonderer
Berücksichtigung der Kriegsverletzungen. (Injuries of the central nervous
system in war, with particular reference to the part related to vision)
Williger
F. (et al.) Die Zahnärtzliche Hilfe im
Felde (Dental care on the battlefield)
Wilmer
WH. Aviation medicine in the A.E.F.
A detailed review of many aspects of aviation
including physiology and psychiatry
Small
reference manual aimed at medical referees, general practitioners and medical
boards. Covers neurasthenia, rheumatic
disorders, dysentery, malaria and “D.A.H.” (Disordered Action of the Heart)
among others; there is a comment on the real nature of DAH with reference to
the suggestion that it might be a form of neurasthenia rather than a true
cardiac condition – a view later upheld
Winternitz,
M. C. Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning, from the Dept.
of Pathology & Bacteriology, Chemical Warfare Service.
Wood
RC. The Soldiers’ First Aid. A simple treatise on how to treat a wounded
comrade.
Pocket
sized handbook. Wood was a Quartermaster
Sergeant of the Canad
Wright
AE. Wound Infections and Some New
Methods for the Study of the Various Factors which come into Consideration in
their Treatment
Almroth Wright was perhaps the bacteriologist
par excellence of the Great War era
Wright
AE. Pathology and Treatment of War
Wounds
Derived
from WW1 experience
Yealland
L.R. Hysterical Disorders of
Warfare.
Macmillan and Co Ltd,
Yealland
worked in London at the National Hospital, Queen Square, and was the
archetype exponent of the ruthless, “pull yourself together” style of
shellshock management
Anon.
Orpington from Saxon Times to the Great War
Orpington, Workers’ Educational
Association, n.d. (1919)
A
village history, of interest because it records in some detail the work of the
Anon. “The Times” Diary and Index of the Great War
Index
to the serialised History, rarely found with the main set
Barker
R. The Royal Flying Corps in
Barker
R. The Royal Flying Corps in
Beckett
IFW. The First World War. The Essential Guide to Sources in the
Covers the entire holding of the
National Archives, it is divided into sections: The higher direction of the
war; new ways of war; the nation in arms; war, state and society. This actually makes it difficult to search
but it is a useful browsing guide
Bourke
J. Dismembering the Male. Men's Bodies,
An interesting study of the body, with
sections on mutilation and malingering (which includes a discussion of the
problems of shell-shock), though with only passing reference to facial
mutilation
Brown
M. The
Brown
M. The
Bryant
A. Jackets of Green.
London, Collins & Co., 1972
History of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps,
colloquially known as the Greenjackets
Callister S. The Face of War. New Zealand’s great War Photography
Sandy
Callister has compiled an impressive account and record of WW1 photography
documenting the NZ contribution to the war.
Chapter 5 covers he facial work of the NZ Section at the Queen's
Hospital, Sidcup
Cave
N. Battleground Europe: Somme;
One of a series of battlefield guides
detailing events on the ground in a small part of the field, with details of
how to visit the site and what to see today.
Using these, and Chris McCarthy’s “Day by Day” accounts of the
Cave
N. Battleground Europe:
Cave
N. Battleground Europe:
Cecil
H, Liddle P. Facing Armageddon. The First World War Experienced
Papers from an international conference held
in
Cohen D. The War Come
Home. Disabled Veterans in
Berkeley,
Scholarly comparison of the different way in
which disabled veterans were managed; in the UK their support was almost
entirely run under charity auspices while in Germany the state provided. Cohen discusses the interesting paradox of
why it was the German veterans who were the more rebellious. See Gerber
The classic “revisionist” history which
decried the generals as donkeys who led lions, based on the disaster of Neuve
Chapelle in 1915
Collier
R. The Plague of the Spanish Lady. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919.
Written in rather vivid journalistic style,
but capturing the scale and enormity of a modern plague which accounted for the
death of over 20 million people worldwide
Cooper
B. The Ironclads of Cambrai.
Souvenir Press, 1967 (Pan Books ed.1970)
Davies
F, Maddocks G. Bloody red tabs: General
officer Casualties of the Great War 1914-1918
Biographies
of the 200 or so casualties of the rank of Brigadier-General and above