A nurse and her patients

British nurse Sarah Arnold kept a diary while she worked at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading during the First World War but instead of writing in it herself, she asked her patients (including some wounded Canadian soldiers) to write of their experiences. After the war, Arnold married John Bridgman of Aberdeen, Saskatchewan, one of the soldiers she had nursed.

Sarah Ellen Arnold, diary, 1916

Arnold diary.pdf (64.2 MB)
diary, 24cm x 18.5cm
David Poisson Collection - Ottawa, Ontario
First World War