The Cellar-House of Pervyse: A Tale of Uncommon Things From the Journals and Letters of the Baroness T'serclaes and Mairi Chisholm
Geraldine Edith Mitton
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(Forgotten Books, Dec. 2, 2017)
Excerpt from The Cellar-House of Pervyse: A Tale of Uncommon Things From the Journals and Letters of the Baroness T'serclaes and Mairi ChisholmOF all the things told of the Great War surely this is the most uncommon, that two women should have been at the front with the Belgian Army almost from the beginning. That they should have lived as the soldiers lived, caring for them, tending them, taking cocoa and soup into the trenches and even to the outposts. And this is what has been done by the two British ladies whose names are on the title page. Both young themselves, one very young, they yet have mothered Belgian soldiers through their trials and made a centre of light and comfort for the soldiers bereft of all that makes life dear and often in agonized uncertainty as to where their Wives, mothers, or children might be. In March, 1915, a very stern decree was passed by the allied armies at Paris to the effect that no women should be allowed in the firing-line, but an exception was made in the case of these two, mentioned by name, because they had proved themselves. How did they begin? I have often been asked that. The book answers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.