My War Experiences in Two Continents
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Read by Ted Lienhart
Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1899-1902), performed social services for the poor in London's East End, and aided victims of the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913. At the beginning of World War I, in 1914, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and went to Belgium where she worked in a field hospital. Afterward she served in Russia, Armenia, and Persia. While in Persia she became ill and returned to England, where she died in July 1916. Throughout the war she had maintained a diary, which her niece edited to create this account. (Summary by Ted Lienhart) (7 hr 35 min)
Chapters
Preface | 5:28 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Part I - Belgium - Antwerp | 36:38 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
With Dr. Hector Munro's Flying Ambulance Corps | 56:42 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
At Furnes Railway-Station | 39:35 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Working Under Difficulties | 41:13 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
The Spring Offensive | 38:53 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Last Days in Flanders | 39:42 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Part II - At Home - How the Message was Delivered | 33:27 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Part III - Russia and the Persian Front - Petrograd | 41:18 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Waiting for Work | 23:17 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Some Impressions of Tiflis and Armenia | 30:03 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
On the Persian Front | 34:14 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
The Last Journey | 20:30 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
Conclusion | 14:11 | Read by Ted Lienhart |