My War Experiences in Two Continents

About this film

LibriVox recording of My War Experiences in Two Continents by Sarah Broom Macnaughtan. Read in English 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) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (210MB)

Directors & creators

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;English; WWI; memoirs; memoir; autobiography; World War 1; hospitals; First World War; WW1; World War One; nursing; hospital; western front; Great War; charity; Red Cross; World War; nurses; nurse; charities; medical care

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