English

Back of the Front [1915]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of Princeton University, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. With an Introduction by W. L. Courtney, M.A., LL.D. The author of the Introduction appears to be William Leonard Courtney, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Courtney The book indicates that the author Phyllis Campbell was in France at the outbreak of war. The book covers the period when she volunteered in France at a Poste de Secours de l'Association des Dames Françaises (Croix Rouge Française) located at a train station, between 15 August and 20 September 1914. Here she helped “in giving the immediate attention required by certain of the wounded in numerous hospital trains as they went through. She also rendered us real assistance in acting as interpreter for the English trains”. At the end of that period “We were informed that we must present ourselves at the Hospital, and be entered for service. We were mobilised with the French Army, and had our numbers, and were liable to be called upon for service anywhere” However this period is not covered in the book, other than the Credentials chapter at the back of the book which indicates the

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