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My War Experiences in Two Continents By: S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan (1864-1916) |
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by S. MACNAUGHTAN Edited by Her Niece, Mrs. Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays Young) With a Portrait [Illustration: Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé.]
London
John Murray, Albemarle Street, W.
1919
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED,
IN ACCORDANCE WITH A WISH EXPRESSED BY
MISS MACNAUGHTAN BEFORE HER DEATH, TO THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING AND
THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN, WITH ADMIRATION AND RESPECT,
AND TO HER NEPHEWS, CAPTAIN LIONEL SALMON, 1st Bn. the Welch Regt.
CAPTAIN HELIER PERCIVAL, M.C., 9th Bn. the Welch Regt.
CAPTAIN ALAN YOUNG, 2nd Bn. the Welch Regt.
CAPTAIN COLIN MACNAUGHTAN, 2nd Dragoon Guards.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD YOUNG, 9th Bn. the Welch Regt.
CONTENTS PAGE
PREFACE ix
PART I
BELGIUM CHAPTER I
ANTWERP 1 CHAPTER II
WITH DR. HECTOR MUNRO'S FLYING AMBULANCE CORPS 24 CHAPTER III
AT FURNES RAILWAY STATION 60 CHAPTER IV
WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES 85 CHAPTER V
THE SPRING OFFENSIVE 111 CHAPTER VI
LAST DAYS IN FLANDERS 135
PART II
AT HOME HOW THE MESSAGE WAS DELIVERED 159
PART III
RUSSIA AND THE PERSIAN FRONT CHAPTER I
PETROGRAD 179 CHAPTER II
WAITING FOR WORK 204 CHAPTER III
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF TIFLIS AND ARMENIA 219 CHAPTER IV
ON THE PERSIAN FRONT 237 CHAPTER V
THE LAST JOURNEY 258
CONCLUSION 272 INDEX 281
PREFACE
In presenting these extracts from the diaries of my aunt, the late Miss
Macnaughtan, I feel it necessary to explain how they come to be
published, and the circumstances under which I have undertaken to edit
them. After Miss Macnaughtan's death, her executors found among her papers a
great number of diaries. There were twenty five closely written volumes,
which extended over a period of as many years, and formed an almost
complete record of every incident of her life during that time. It is amazing that the journal was kept so regularly, as Miss
Macnaughtan suffered from writer's cramp, and the entries could only
have been written with great difficulty. Frequently a passage is begun
in the writing of her right, and finished in that of her left hand, and
I have seen her obliged to grasp her pencil in her clenched fist before
she was able to indite a line. In only one volume, however, do we find
that she availed herself of the services of her secretary to dictate the
entries and have them typed. The executors found it extremely difficult to know how to deal with such
a vast mass of material. Miss Macnaughtan was a very reserved woman.{1}
She lived much alone, and the diary was her only confidante. In one of
her books she says that expression is the most insistent of human needs,
and that the inarticulate man or woman who finds no outlet in speech or
in the affections, will often keep a little locked volume in which self
can be safely revealed. Her diary occupied just such a place in her own
inner life, and for that reason one hesitates to submit its pages even
to the most loving and sympathetic scrutiny. But Miss Macnaughtan's diary fulfilled a double purpose. She used it
largely as material for her books. Ideas for stories, fragments of plays
and novels, are sketched in on spare sheets, and the pages are full of
the original theories and ideas of a woman who never allowed anyone else
to do her thinking for her. A striking sermon or book may be criticised
or discussed, the pros and cons of some measure of social reform weighed
in the balance; and the actual daily chronicle of her busy life, of her
travels, her various experiences and adventures, makes a most
interesting and fascinating tale... Continue reading book >>
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